to all, thanks for your prompt replies. You guys are great! Anjan On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <nore...@gunnar.cc>wrote:
> Telemachus wrote: > >> On Wed Apr 08 2009 @ 3:22, ANJAN PURKAYASTHA wrote: >> >>> I have a file stored at a location: http://parent_dir/file >>> Which among gazillion LWP options can I use to download and store the >>> file >>> on my machine? >>> >> >> If you just want to grab the file, you can use LWP::Simple to grab it: >> >> use LWP::Simple; >> >> my $url = 'http://parent_dir/file'; >> my $local = '/path/to/local/file'; >> my $file = getstore($url, $local); >> > > getstore() returns the HTTP status code, so 'file' is not the most > appropriate name of a variable to which the return value is assigned. > > -- > Gunnar Hjalmarsson > Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > -- ============================= anjan purkayastha, phd bioinformatics analyst whitehead institute for biomedical research nine cambridge center cambridge, ma 02142 purkayas [at] wi [dot] mit [dot] edu 703.740.6939
