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$answer = system("wget http://www.bla.de/bla/blaDetail.aspx?ID=$i");

How can i push the content of a single html site into $answer ?

This line doesn't work


Thanks

Reinhard Glauber wrote:
> $answer = system("wget http://www.bla.de/bla/blaDetail.aspx?ID=$i");
>
> How can i push the content of a single html site into $answer ?
>
> This line doesn't work

What did you do to find out before posting here? Did you possibly read
the docs for the functioh you are using?

perldoc -f system

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"Gunnar Hjalmarsson" <> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:...

> Reinhard Glauber wrote:


> What did you do to find out before posting here? Did you possibly read
> the docs for the functioh you are using?
>
> perldoc -f system



Not installed on my system .. I'm lucky .. no one can blame me )
You need to install the perl-doc package to use this program.

Reinhard Glauber wrote:
> Gunnar Hjalmarsson schrieb:
>>What did you do to find out before posting here? Did you possibly read
>>the docs for the functioh you are using?
>>
>> perldoc -f system
>
> Not installed on my system .. I'm lucky .. no one can blame me )
> You need to install the perl-doc package to use this program.

No, you are not lucky, and anybody can blame you for not reading the
docs of the programming language you are using.

A few options:

- Install perldoc

- Install Perl on your PC. Since you seem to be on a Windows box, I'd
recommend the bundle at http://www.indigostar.com/indigoperl.htm, which
would give you the docs conveniently available as HTML documents.
http://www.activestate.com/ offers a similar bundle.

- Download the docs from http://www.activestate.com/

- Browse the docs on the web; in this case:
http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/system.html

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> - Download the docs from http://www.activestate.com/

Typo: I meant http://perldoc.perl.org/

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"Gunnar Hjalmarsson" <> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:...

> Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:

> > - Download the docs from http://www.activestate.com/

>
> Typo: I meant http://perldoc.perl.org/



aaaah, very nice
thanks

Reinhard Glauber wrote:
> "Gunnar Hjalmarsson" <> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:...
>> Reinhard Glauber wrote:
>
>> What did you do to find out before posting here? Did you possibly
>> read the docs for the functioh you are using?
>>
>> perldoc -f system
>
>
> Not installed on my system .. I'm lucky .. no one can blame me )
> You need to install the perl-doc package to use this program.

Well, then why don't you fix your broken Perl installation? Then you can
read the documentation yourself and don't have to ask someone else to read
them for you.

Oh, and to answer your original question: See perldoc -f system, third
paragraph, fourth sentence.
Not to mention that this Question is Asked very Frequently, too.

jue

"Reinhard Glauber" <> wrote in news:43ccbf22$0$21021$9b4e6d93
@newsread2.arcor-online.net:

> $answer = system("wget http://www.bla.de/bla/blaDetail.aspx?ID=$i");
>
> How can i push the content of a single html site into $answer ?
>
> This line doesn't work

Have you read the posting guidelines for this group?

In addition to Gunnar and Jurgen's comments, I suggest you take a look at

<URL:http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-5.805/lib/LWP/Simple.pm>

Sinan
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comp.lang.perl.misc guidelines on the WWW:
http://mail.augustmail.com/~tadmc/cl...uidelines.html

Reinhard Glauber <> wrote:

> $answer = system("wget http://www.bla.de/bla/blaDetail.aspx?ID=$i");

perldoc -q HTML

How do I fetch an HTML file?

How do I automate an HTML form submission?


> How can i push the content of a single html site into $answer ?


The way it says to in the documentation for the function that
you are using, or the way that it says to in the Perl FAQ.


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Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas

Reinhard Glauber wrote:
> $answer = system("wget http://www.bla.de/bla/blaDetail.aspx?ID=$i");

That's not Perl - that's a shell command with a little bit of Perl
wrapped around it (and it's not even the right sort of Perl).

Real Perl programmers use real Perl functions and modules, and they
resort to shell commands only when absolutely necessary (which is
generally rare - I haven't used a raw shell command from Perl in three
years). The most common module for this purpose is LWP. But I always
recommend the use of the super-duper-module IO::All
(http://tinyurl.com/982wo), especially to novice programmers, because
it provides a nice, EASY proxy to LWP (and a bunch of other functions
and modules). How easy, you ask? Well, I'm REALLY GLAD you asked:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings; use strict;
use IO::All;
my $content < io('http://example.org');
print $content;
__END__

IT DON'T GET NO MORE EASIER THAN THAT RIGHT THERE!

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