Hi guys,

I'm trying to write a script that will aggregate two or more RSS feeds and display the contents of both feeds in one place on a webpage. I've managed to achieve this if I explicitly set the RSS URLs in my Perl script but this isn't ideal. In order to scale, I need to be able pass the script the URLs that need aggregating. That way I can use one script for numerous implementations.

So I've used the following which works:

while (<DATA>) {
  blah
}
_DATA_
http://www.domain.com/path/to/RSS/feed.xml
http://www.domain.com/path/to/second/RSS/feed.xml

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However, what I'd really like to do is this:

my $url1 = $cgi->param('url1');
my $url2 = $cgi->param('url2');

while (<DATA>) {
  blah
}
_DATA_
$url1
$url2

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I'm sorry if I've misunderstood something fundamental here, but I guess what I want to know is is there a way to pass my script the URLs I need aggregating whilst still using the _DATA_ token?

Thanks :)

In reply to Passing values to use under _DATA_ token by pmruk

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