Perl & LWP

by Sean M. Burke

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Perl soared to popularity as a language for creating and managing web content, but with LWP (Library for WWW in Perl), Perl is equally adept at consuming information on the Web. LWP is a suite of modules for fetching and processing web pages. The Web is a vast data source that contains everything from stock prices to movie credits, and with LWP all that data is just a few lines of code away. Anything you do on the Web, whether it's buying or selling, reading or writing, uploading or show more downloading, news to e-commerce, can be controlled with Perl and LWP. You can automate Web-base show less

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Sean M. Burke is an active member of the Perl community and one of CPAN's most prolific module authors. Since 1998 he has been a contributor to LWP and a columnist for The Perl Journal

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Technology, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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005.133Computer science, information & general worksComputer science, knowledge & systemsSoftware development, software, data, securitySoftware developmentComputer programmingSpecific programming languages
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QA76.73 .P22 .B87ScienceMathematicsMathematicsInstruments and machinesCalculating machinesElectronic computers. Computer science
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