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Web Development

Web Access with LWP

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Here are a number of ways you can retrieve information from the web. You can access it frankly via a browser, or you can write a script that gets the information for you and delivers it in a form you can use. The LWP library for Perl can help you with the latter. Keep reading for a closer look.
– The Web is a wonderful resource. It contains a wealth of information about nearly every conceivable topic, and in order to access much of that information, you only need a Web browser, of which here are several to choose from. For example, if I need to check the weather before I head outside to fig…