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Perl & LWP. (Book Browser).


Pens flexibility makes it a favourite of coders, and with its multi-purpose modules-there are very few tasks that Pen is not applied to. One of the handiest and most practical tools is LWP (Library for World Wide Web in Perl) A suite of class libraries and software modules for the Perl programming language that is used to automate Web pages. LWP is commonly used to parse data from HTML pages.  (Library for WWW WWW or W3: see World Wide Web.


(World Wide Web) The common host name for a Web server. The "www-dot" prefix on Web addresses is widely used to provide a recognizable way of identifying a Web site.
 in Pen), the suite of modules for fetching and processing web pages. There is a wealth of information on the Web: news, weather, government info, shopping, discussion groups, product info, reviews, games, and other entertainment, and LWP can help automate all of it. In this book, the author shows how to use the powerful LWP library and its related HTML HTML
 in full HyperText Markup Language

Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web.
 tools to build useful web client applications to automate various tasks on the Web. LWP enables programmers to write "spiders" to automatically fetch web pages, extract information from HTML pages, submit forms, and write homegrown servers. With LWP, programmers can dispense with graphical web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical
Historically important browsers
In order of release:
  • WorldWideWeb, February 26, 1991
  • Erwise, April 1992
  • ViolaWWW, May 1992, see Erwise
 such as Netscape Navigator An earlier Web browser for Windows, Macintosh and X Windows from Netscape that provided secure transmission over the Internet. Soon after its introduction in 1994, Navigator, or just "Netscape," as it was commonly called, quickly became the leading browser on the Web.  and interact with web servers directly, making it ideal for repetitive tasks that would be cumbersome to perform with a browser.
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Author:Burke, Sean
Publication:Software World
Date:May 1, 2003
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