RE: Piping output to and from external perl routine

2004-10-16 Thread Dan Fish
< original request snipped> > > Copy and paste Tom's code into your program. > Yes... I could do that, and HAVE actually done that before for other routines due to the "fire-fighting" time constraints of the moment :-) This time I was hoping to increase my *very-limited* knowledge of Perl for

Re: Piping output to and from external perl routine

2004-10-16 Thread John W. Krahn
Dan Fish wrote: Yes... I could do that, and HAVE actually done that before for other routines due to the "fire-fighting" time constraints of the moment :-) This time I was hoping to increase my *very-limited* knowledge of Perl for a more elegant solution, because I'm sure I'll need to do something

Re: Piping output to and from external perl routine

2004-10-15 Thread John W. Krahn
Dan Fish wrote: Is there an easy way to pipe output to an external perl routine and then pipe the output of that routine back in for more processing? In particular I want to use LWP::UserAgent to grab a web page, pipe the output to Tom Christiansen's "striphtml" routine (http://www.cpan.org/authors

Re: Piping output to and from external perl routine

2004-10-15 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Dan Fish wrote: Is there an easy way to pipe output to an external perl routine and then pipe the output of that routine back in for more processing? It depends on what the external Perl routine does. In particular I want to use LWP::UserAgent to grab a web page, pipe the output to Tom Christiansen

Re: Piping output to and from external perl routine

2004-10-15 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> Is there an easy way to pipe output to an external perl routine and then > pipe the output of that routine back in for more processing? > > In particular I want to use LWP::UserAgent to grab a web page, pipe the > output to Tom Christiansen's "striphtml" routine > (http://www.cpan.org/authors/To

Piping output to and from external perl routine

2004-10-15 Thread Dan Fish
Is there an easy way to pipe output to an external perl routine and then pipe the output of that routine back in for more processing? In particular I want to use LWP::UserAgent to grab a web page, pipe the output to Tom Christiansen's "striphtml" routine (http://www.cpan.org/authors/Tom_Christians