> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Bach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 7:28 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: open URL as stream with LWP?
>
>
> Is there a way to open a URL with LWP so that it becomes
> something like
> a filehandle so that I can do a "while (<URL>)" on it? This would be
> really handy, but I can't sort out how to do it.
>
> The code I am working on originally opened a file, and used a
> filehandle
> to do its thing. Replacing the filehandle would keep things
> so simple.
> I can already opening a pipe to wget or curl, which is what I am
> doing, but I would like to use LWP so that things would be
> more portable.
You can do something along the lines of the following to get
line-by-line processing of a response:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP::Simple;
for (split /\n/, get("http://www.yahoo.com";)) {
print $_, "\n";
}
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