Re: Help for a newbie..

2001-06-25 Thread Nigel Wetters
Here's a bit of code that retrieves a webpage and stores it in a scalar. use LWP::Simple; $content = get("http://www.slashdot.org/";); Now, it's quite useful (and instructive) to use regular expressions to chop the resulting page into useful lists and hashes. --nigel >>> "JM C. Alonzo" <[EMA

Re: Help for a newbie..

2001-06-24 Thread Anthony E.
Find some scripts that use the perl environment variables...also read the documentation from cpan.org on CGI.pm - CGI.pm is a very helpful perl module that should already be installed with perl. (i suggest picking up the "Learning Perl" book published by O'Reilly (check bookpool.com or fatbrain.c

Re: Help for a newbie..

2001-06-24 Thread Me
> im a newbie to PERL.. right now, im learning it but i dont have any exercises > to work on. i need them because its how i learn.. can please someone tell me > what is a nice thing to do when you are still starting to learn PERL and you > want to enhance your skill > tnx http://learn.perl.or

Help for a newbie..

2001-06-24 Thread JM C. Alonzo
im a newbie to PERL.. right now, im learning it but i dont have any exercises to work on. i need them because its how i learn.. can please someone tell me what is a nice thing to do when you are still starting to learn PERL and you want to enhance your skill tnx