--- 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 ===== Senior Programmer Onsite! Technology (http://www.onsitetech.com/) "Ovid" on http://www.perlmonks.org/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]