--- Brian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Folk,
> 
> I'm not looking for how to do this, but I am just curious if anyone has
> either done this or knows if it can be done.
> 
> We need to capture data from a website that happens to be a text file.
> Currently we have to manually save the data via the browser, then
> manually move the txt data and process it.   What I want to know is if
> commands within the Perl language will allow for me to automatically go
> to the website and save the txt file locally so that we can automate the
> processing of all of this data.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Brian

Brian,

If I understood you correctly, the following untested code should give you some 
pointers:

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    use strict;
    use LWP::Simple;

    my $file = './data/datafile.txt';

    my $url = 'http://www.someserver.com/somepath/somedoc.txt';
    my $data = get( $url );

    if ( defined $data )
    {
        open OUT, "> $file" or die "Cannot open $file for writing: $!";
        print OUT $data     or die "Could not print to $file: $!";
        close OUT           or die "Could not close $file: $!";
    } 
    else
    {
        warn "Could not GET data form $url";
    }

Cheers,
Curtis "Ovid" Poe

=====
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Onsite! Technology (http://www.onsitetech.com/)
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