Hi all.
With help from:
parv,
dhoss,
Fairy_Nuff, and
planetscape, I started writing a chatterbox history tool for educational reasons.
use warnings;
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;
use DBI;
my $data = '';
my $dbh = '';
my $url = 'http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=207304';
my $pat = qr{ .*<author>(.*)<\/author>.*<text>(.*)<\/text }xs;
$data = get( $url );
$dbh = DBI->connect( "dbi:SQLite:dbname=C:\\testdb", "", "" );
while ( ( my($auth, $text) = ( $data =~ m/$pat/gc ) ) ) {
for( $text ) {
s/[ ]+/ /g;
s/^\s+//;
s/\s+$//;
}
printf "%s: %s\n\n" , $auth , $text;
$dbh->do('insert into monks values(?,?)', undef, $auth, $text );
}
I was hoping some of you could offer suggestions regarding how I might improve the design/functionality of the (currently beta quality) program. At the present time, it only displays the most recent author/comment as opposed to several speakers and their respective comments.
I took the liberty of including my (simple) table design as well:
SQLite 3.5.6
CREATE TABLE monks(
monk varchar(25),
comment varchar(255)
);
Thanks,
~Katie
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