nicolethomson has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Fetching and Storing Information from Websites
Good day everyone
I am pretty fresher on this forum as well as perl, and new to coding too. but started learning these, on seeing my colleagues do in windows box's, fortunately i am in love with linux and installed LinuxMint in my computer.Now i am trying to do a small coding to fetch data from a website and store it in database.the data available in web is .htm file and there are around 35 .htm files with different heading and the data format as follows.
A Week 1
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DAY-1 DAY-2 DAY-3 DAY-4 DAY-5
28/01 29/01 30/01 31/01 01/02
------------------- ------------------- ------------------- ------------------- ---------------
000 000 000 000 000
030 030 030 030 030
018 019 019 019 020
002 002 001 002 002
093 096 093 093 090
053 052 056 053 053
007 007 007 007 007
140 130 110 080 080
At present i am copying these info's manually into an excel file as of now, but wanted to do through script and a cron job it. My friend suggested me to do using some scripts and another one suggested perl is the best bet for the same. Can someone guide me?