Fellow monks,

I am trying to retrieve the number of chars of a HTML page.

This is my first shot 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl510
use warnings;
use strict;

use WWW::Mechanize;

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new( ); 
$mech->agent_alias( 'Windows IE 6' );

my $url = 'http://www.somewhere.tld/';

$mech->get( $url );
$mech->success() or 
                    die "Get $url failed. " ,
                    $mech->response->status_line();

my $content = $mech->content(format => 'text');

my $len = length $content;

print "Number of Chars: $len\n";

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This gives a number of chars, that is close to the one M$-Office reports. (That is copy and paste the content of the same page opened in a browser to M$-Word.)

There's about 3 % difference.

Is there a better way to count the chars?

Thanks.

In reply to Counting chars in a HTML-page by Anonymous Monk

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