# Note - don't use this code. See link above. package PerlMonksChat; use LWP::UserAgent; use HTTP::Request; use HTML::Entities; sub new { my $class=shift; my $url=shift||'http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=2518'; my $self={}; $self->{url}=$url; $self->{ua}=new LWP::UserAgent; $self->{req}=new HTTP::Request('GET', $url); $self->{cache}=[]; bless $self, $class; return $self; } sub getalllines { my $self=shift; $ua=$self->{ua}; $req=$self->{req}; # print "(* grabbing *)\n"; my $response=$ua->request($req); if ($response->is_success) { my $c=$response->content; # print $c; if ($c =~ /]*?>(.*?)]+?>//g; decode_entities($_); $_ } split(/\s*
\s*/, $chatline); return @chatlines; } } else { return ("error"); } } sub getnewlines { my $self=shift; my $cache=$self->{cache}; my @allines=$self->getalllines(); my @newcache; # Don't use a regular cache, instead go back through them until we # find the first one that is in the cache. foreach (reverse @allines) { last if ($cache->[0] && $_ eq $cache->[0]); push @newcache, $_; } # Add the new lines to the cache unshift @$cache, @newcache; # Trim the cache to the last 50 lines splice(@$cache,50); return reverse @newcache; } 1;