Had to uninstall ActivePerl and reinstall, rather than just install over older version, and then it worked, no need to 'ppm install LWP::Simple'.
use LWP::Simple; if (my $img = get("$image_url")) { open OUT, "> $file_to_write"; binmode OUT; print OUT $img; close OUT; print "OK.\n"; } else { print "FAIL.\n"; } Gary > -----Original Message----- > From: Gary Hawkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 6:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: FW: Save image to disk > > > Worked fine on the remote system, but, can someone give me the ppm > install ... > <url> line to install LWP::Simple? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: > > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 8:16 AM > > To: 'Gary Hawkins' > > Subject: RE: Save image to disk > > > > > > It looks like you didn't get a straight answer. You can use LWP::Simple to > > fetch the image, then can save it to disk. > > > > use LWP::Simple; > > > > my $img = get("http://someplace.com/images/foo.gif"); > > > > open OUT, "> foo.gif" or die $!; > > binmode OUT; # only needed on Windows (I think) > > print OUT $img; > > close OUT; > > > > > > > > Would like to save images to disk using their URL's. Hoping someone can > > give > > me a jump start on it. > > > > Gary > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]