Hi - I have a program which currently opens a local file, reads it in line by line, and then closes the file (a standard kind of thing to do). I need to know how to open a file over http to do the same thing. Here's my barebones code:
open(DATAFILE, '../libsearch/SAMPLE.TXT');
while (<DATAFILE>) {
print $_;
}
close(DATAFILE);
Instead of the relative filepath, I tried this line:
open(DATAFILE, 'http://www.jaywil.com/libsearch/SAMPLE.TXT');
Didn't work. How can I open a file over http to read it's successive text lines, as if it were local?
Thanks so much!
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