Re: A function that reads a webpage?
From: Jonathan Bartlett (johnnyb_at_eskimo.com)
Date: 02/04/05
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Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 10:37:52 -0500
Nick wrote:
> What tools are available to read webpages? I have a couple projects in
> mind. One is to help with my Ebay auctions. It will basically keep
> track of who is buying what. Another is to keep an updated copy of a
> website. Really I just want one simple function. Input: URL Output:
> Webpage source. Between me and a friend who is helping with one of the
> projects we are familiar with the most commonly used programming
> languages. Any advice would be appreciated.
If you're going to do any searching/extracting of data from webpages,
use Perl and learn the regular expressions (if you don't know regexps,
do "perldoc perlre").
Jon
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