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Re: automatic non-ftp download

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From:
Jenda Krynicky
Date:
December 10, 2002 09:27
Subject:
Re: automatic non-ftp download
Message ID:
3DF631E7.7301.1A743F07@localhost
From:           	<William.Ampeh@frb.gov>
> Is anyone aware of a Perl module, script, etc. which can perform an
> automatic download (similar to lynx)?
> 
> So say, I want to download and process the contents of the excel file
> at the following site:
> http://www.census.gov/indicator/www/m3/adv/table1a.xls

use LWP::Simple;

Jenda
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