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Automating interaction with a website using WWW-Mechanize

Posted Tue, 15/09/2009 - 2:31pm by Matt
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www::mechanize helps you automate interaction with a website.

WWW-Mechanize is helpful when you have tasks that are run more than once (e.g. daily, weekly) and require some form of logical interaction with a website to complete. An example is where a website requires authentication (e.g. username/password), menu selection (e.g. change to different URL) and then requires some details in a form before doing something like downloading a file.

Using Perl to create and manipulate PDFs

Posted Sat, 29/08/2009 - 12:33pm by Matt
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PDF::Reuse is a great module for where you have a requirement to programmatically manipulate a PDF. Features include PDF split and PDF merge.

Visit PDF processing with perl for great tutorial about how to use module.

Perl's power is in the CPAN

Posted Thu, 27/08/2009 - 5:42pm by Matt
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Perl is a general purpose computer programming language originally designed to help with making report processing easier. Today it is used for a wide range of tasks.

CPAN is the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. CPAN contains over 16,000 modules. Each module contains a library of routines that help complete various tasks.

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