in reply to LWP::Simple question

That's pretty much all I'm wondering is whether I can take the text on the screen as a whole without scanning the source code.

on windows, you could use Internet Explorer via COM to open the page and then save it as text, or select and copy everything to the clipboard.

on Unix, you could use some text browser (links, w3m, lynxs, etc) to download the page and save it as text.

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