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in reply to RE: Post Election Day Perl
in thread Post Election Day Perl

Ahh, but do these solutions e-mail only when there's a change, or every time they poll for numbers?

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RE: RE: RE: Post Election Day Perl
by amelinda (Friar) on Nov 09, 2000 at 23:11 UTC
    No, but this one does. Based on the "ass-u-me everything" one above, it also includes a bugfix so that it shouldn't break if there is more than one instance of Bush|Gore and appends to the logfile instead of overwriting. 485 bytes.
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w open I,"lynx -dump http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/results/FL/index.h +tml|";while(<I>){@j=split;if($j[1]){$j[1]=~s/,//g;}if(/\]Bush/){$b=$j +[1];}elsif(/\]Gore/){$g=$j[1];}}close I;$l=`tail -n1 log`;@l=split / +/,$l;$d=abs($b-$g);if($l[1]==$d){die"same\n";}if($b==$g){$r="tied!\n" +;}$b<$g ? $r="Gore: $d\n" : $r="Bush: $d\n";open O,">>out";print O "$ +r";close O;open F,"mfile";$m=<F>;close F;open(M,"|sendmail -t");print + M <<E; Subject: results Cc: $m $r E close M;exit;
      Oh well sure if I knew we were allowed to just use any old `external program` output, I could half the size of mine too...

      (I'm just giving you a hard time.. :)