Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> On 15/11/2011 02:51 PM, Invisible wrote:
>
> > Step 2: Write a program to download the HTML.
> > Step 3: Write a program to extract meaningful data from the mangled HTML.
> > Step 4: Convert the dozens of files into one giant file.
>
> Of course, now somebody is going to point out that in Perl, the entire
> program would have been 3 lines. But I'm not using Perl unless somebody
> pays me. :-P

Good you at least know that! :)

Besides builtin http clients being pretty much a given in any modern programming
environment (including C++ boost if I'm not wrong), there's also command-line
tools such as wget.  No need to write a half-baked unoptmized attempt these
days. :)

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