retrieving info from the web with perl

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Monks, Is there a way to visit a web-site within a normal perl script and store the text in an array?
Thanks!

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Re: retrieving info from the web with perl by borisz (Canon) on Jan 28, 2005 at 11:48 UTC
Yes, `perl -MLWP::Simple -e 'push @x, get("http://perlmonks.com/index.pl")'` [download] Boris	[reply] [d/l]
Re: retrieving info from the web with perl by friedo (Prior) on Jan 28, 2005 at 13:24 UTC
You can find the documentation for LWP::Simple here: LWP::Simple. For more complicated interaction with web sites, take a look at LWP::UserAgent and WWW::Mechanize.	[reply]