while i presume this will work, i shall also assume you've
overlooked the fact that illiad likes to trip people up
with his cataloging system for the script. by my count
it has changed 4 times (maybe 3) since the start of UF,
therefore, while this code does make a nasty call to
lynx that could prolly be done better with lwp or something
it is a bit safer, less he change it again
$imagetag = 0;
open(INFILE, "lynx -source http://www.userfriendly.org/static/
+|");
while (<INFILE>) {
next if $image;
if (/.*(IMG ALT\=\"Latest Strip\" height\=219 width\=5
+76 BORDER\=0 SRC\=\"http:\/\/www.userfriendly.org\/cartoons\/archives
+\/.+<\/A>).*/) {
$imagetag = $1;
if ($imagetag =~ /.* ALT\s*=\s*"Latest Strip"
+.*/i) {
if ($imagetag =~ /.*(\/cartoons\/archi
+ves\/.+f).*/i) {
$image = $1;
$image =~ s/xuf/uf/;
`lynx -source http://www.userf
+riendly.org$image > ufieimage.gif`;
# i like jpgs, deal.
`convert ufieimage.gif ufieima
+ge.jpg`;
unlink("ufieimage.gif");
}
}
}
}
charlie schmidt
ishamael@themes.org
www.diablonet.net/~ishamael/