I'm not sure that plucking code form the Internet (that you may or may not understand) and asking 'hey...how can you refactor this to do x and y?' is a brilliant strategy. Second, grabbing a whole bunch of files from somebody's website is probably a violation of their terms of service. Nevertheless, you might try something like this: 

linux> perl -e 'for my $month (qw|June July|) {for(1..3){my $url = qq|
+http://localhost/foo| . $_ . qq|\.tar&dt=| . qq|$month-2001|; print q
+q|Doing >>> $url\n|; `wget $url` }}'

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Replace the start of the URL with your target. Of course you'll need wget, but you can even download that for Windows nowadays. Please don't let this discourage you from learning Perl and trying to understand code that you find on the web. It just isn't a very good place to start if your intent is to learn this language. If your intent isn't to learn the language then you are in the wrong place. There are websites that will write scripts for you for a modest sum.

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In reply to Re: How To Download DAT Files From Unsecured Website by InfiniteSilence
in thread How To Download DAT Files From Unsecured Website by Marjan

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