Problems with Macperl 5.6+CGI.PM
[email protected] (Ryan Surber) Sun, 14 Apr 2002 00:29:27 -0700 (PDT)
| Newsgroups | perl.macperl.webcgi |
|---|---|
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Hi all. I'm new to the list.
I've DL'd the newest version of MacPerl after reading
this website;
http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/Perl/DataMining/page1.html
I setup Macperl and ran this script (straight off the
website).
#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP::Simple;
my $content = get("http://www.yahoo.com"); #Store the
output of the web page (html and all) in content
if (defined $content)
{
#$content will contain the html associated with
the url mentioned above.
print $content;
}
else
{
#If an error occurs then $content will not be
defined.
print "Error: Get failed";
}
.... problem is, I can't get more than a few lines
worth of text from the page. I've tried other sites
thinking that it was a fluke... oddly enough, I can't
get more than couple lines of text from cnn.com. I
tried disney.com next. Same thing... funny thing is,
the amount of lines differs from site to site. One
site would give me the first 5 lines, while another
would give me 12 lines. [...shaking head...]
I am *totally* stumped and am unable to track down
what is going wrong.
If anyone out there could either verify my problem or
explain what I'm doing wrong I would be greatfully
indebted to you.
Many thanks,
Devo.
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