cobra2341 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, new to PerlMonk. My question is this. I have a website that I downloaded with LWP and on that page there are about 300 links. What I am trying to do is to have Perl fetch certain links on the site. Thanks updated code 
use WWW::Mechanize;
  use strict;

  my $m = WWW::Mechanize->new();
  $m->get("http://www.thebaseballcube.com/teams/team_32.shtml");
  for my $link ($m->links) {
    #next unless if $link->url() =~ /ad\.php/;
    print $link->url."\n";
  }

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Re: Filter Data
by erroneousBollock (Curate) on Aug 26, 2007 at 23:35 UTC
    Something like this? 

      use WWW::Mechanize;
  use strict;

  my $m = WWW::Mechanize->new();
  $m->get("http://SERVER/PATH");
  for my $link ($m->links) {
    #next unless GOOD_LINK_CONDITION;
    print $link->url."\n";
  }

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    Obviously you need to replace SERVER, PATH, and GOOD_LINK_CONDITION.

    Uncomment the 'next' line to do filtering of your links.

    -David

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Re: Filter Data
by FunkyMonk (Bishop) on Aug 26, 2007 at 23:42 UTC
    Hello, and welcome to PerlMonks!

    Have another look at your question, and ask yourself this: If I'd been asked this question, could I answer it?.

    Now think about what would make this an answerable question?

    That's the question to ask!

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      ok. Heres is the site http://www.thebaseballcube.com/teams/team_32.shtml If you look on that site, it has prior years, like 2005. When you click that link it goes to another page that has a list of players. When you click on a player it has all there info. What I want perl to do is download that page for all the players for all teh years. thanks
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        Ok... so as your next step, show us what you have tried so far.
        (Post your code... please remember to follow the formatting guidelines.)

        -David

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        The site has alot of ad hyperlinks and I do not want those. Sorry dhoss
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Re: Filter Data
by stonecolddevin (Parson) on Aug 26, 2007 at 23:36 UTC

    You should take a look at PerlMonks FAQ#Posting-on-PerlMonks.

    In order to effectively answer a question like this we'll need to see what you've tried so far and what's your criteria for "certain links".

    meh.
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Re: Filter Data
by stonecolddevin (Parson) on Aug 26, 2007 at 23:37 UTC

    You should take a look at the "Posting on Perlmonks" section of PerlMonks FAQ.

    In order to effectively answer a question like this we'll need to see what you've tried so far and what's your criteria for "certain links".

    meh.
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