Hi all I'm a complete Perl newbie so please treat me gently :)
I have installed ActivePerl V5.6.1 and also libwww-perl-5.62 and have gained a VERY basic understanding of Perl. I have programmed databases using BASIC type languages in the past, but interaction with the Web is a completely new beast to me. When connected to the Internet, via a dial-up connection, all I want to be able to do from my PC (Windows 2000) is to write a programme to automatically: a) access a web page on the Internet using a URL address (http://www.xxx.com) b) enter into the resulting displayed page (http://www.xxx.com/1-1Login.asp) (i) into the login box, my login id (ii) into the password box, my password (iii) press the adjacent 'Login' button c) another page is then displayed (https//www.xxx.com/MyAccountBalanaces.asp) which displays account information On this page I wish to: (i) copy certain displayed information and insert this copied information into an Excel spreadsheet (or alternatively append into a simple text file) on my PC (ii) then press the 'Logout' button on the web page to logout I do really need some ideas/pointers on how to achieve this. I am of course assuming that this is all possible using Perl. I am trying to automate a daily task to collect my account balance information that I perform from my home PC, and would like to just run a programme that would go away, pick up the information from a web page a deposit it onto my PC. Any help much appreciated. Thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
