Re: how to read data from a URL

Something like the following should get you going:

use strict;
use warnings;

use LWP::Simple;
my $url = "http://whatev.er";
my $content = get($url);
$content =~ s/ /%20/g;
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tomte

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Re^2: how to read data from a URL by xhunter (Sexton) on May 15, 2007 at 23:29 UTC
# An example using WWW::Mechanize and URI::Escape use strict; use WWW::Mechanize; # Create a new mechanize object my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(); my $url = 'http://www.exampleurl.com/'; # Associate the mechanize object with a URL $mech->get($url); # Print the content of the URL print $mech->content; # Load URL::Escape to escape URI's with uri_escape method. use URI::Escape; my @links = $mech->links; foreach my $link (@links) { print uri_escape($link->url), "\n"; }	[reply]

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Re^2: how to read data from a URL
by xhunter (Sexton) on May 15, 2007 at 23:29 UTC

# An example using WWW::Mechanize and URI::Escape

use strict;

use WWW::Mechanize;
# Create a new mechanize object
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
my $url = 'http://www.exampleurl.com/';
# Associate the mechanize object with a URL
$mech->get($url);
# Print the content of the URL
print $mech->content;

# Load URL::Escape to escape URI's with uri_escape method.
use URI::Escape;
my @links = $mech->links;
foreach my $link (@links) {
    print uri_escape($link->url), "\n";   
}

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