(Ebook) Perl and LWP by Sean M. Burke ISBN 9780596001780, 0596001789

(Ebook) Perl and LWP by Sean M. Burke ISBN 9780596001780, 0596001789

With the LWP (Library for WWW in Perl) suite of modules, your programs can download and extract information from the Web. Written by a contributor to LWP, and with a foreword by one of LWP's creators, Perl & LWP is the authoritative guide to using this powerful and popular toolkit.You'll learn how to navigate the Web with LWP, fetching web pages, submitting forms, managing cookies, and accessing authenticated web sites. The book also demonstrates using three different techniques, regular expressions, tokens, and tress, to extract information from HTML. The many detailed case studies show you how to apply this knowledge to real world situations, from downloading news stories to e-commerce. Perl & LWP is a must have for Perl programmers who want to automate and mine the Web.