in reply to Re: Automated downloading of NOAA radar images
in thread Automated downloading of NOAA radar images
Thanks for the tip, merlyn, I have "refactored" my code as follows:
It does seem a cleaner way to handle this...
use strict; use LWP::Simple; use POSIX; my $refresh = 1800; { &imagegrab; sleep $refresh; redo; } sub imagegrab { my $base="http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/RadarImg/N0R/MTX_N0R_0.gi +f"; my $timestring = strftime( "%Y%m%d_%H%M%S", gmtime() ); my $savefilename = "SLCRadar_".$timestring.".gif"; my $status = getstore($base,$savefilename); print $status."\n" ; }
It does seem a cleaner way to handle this...
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