Hi Greg-
That is exactly what I was thinking! The computer with the wx station
does have a web server and I was planning to stick the file in the
httpdocs dir so it can be served as well. (*Jake pines for symlinks on
window like in unix*)
The file simply contains the url I posted earlier. Using awk -F \&
'{print $x}' I was able to derive:
5=wind speed
6=wind gust
7=humidity
8=temp (f)
9=rainfaill
10=barometer
I know Perl has builtin things like sed and awk - looks like that is
what SuperDateTime is using to extract the data from the weather.com
page.
I'm not exactly sure how to handle parsing the url tho, which is
actually a text file (wu.txt) containing the url that will get served
by the wx computer. AND I don't want to much up SuperDateTime too badly
in case later we want to be able to switch back to weather.com's feed.
Thanks for you advice and help. And yes I should dig out the O'Reilly
Perl books collecting dust on my shelf.
Jake
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