On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 05:01:33PM -0800, Peter wrote:
> hi guys, just wondering if I can use perl to email me
> a text based copy of a web page, maybe copy and paste
> to a file then e-mail the info.  I can probably use
> something like a macro in windows nt to create a
> procedure or something....any ideas? thanks...maybe
> someone has done this before.  I would like to get
> periodic updates on my stocks.
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For this I'd recommend:

LWP::Simple;    # To get the page (presuming no cookie or password needed
HTML::Parser or a regex # To grab the pertinent stuff

I'm not sure how mail works on NT but I'd check CPAN for that IIWY.


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