HTML::Parser to parse a HTML file from URL or standalone

[supra91]

Hi,
I want to use HTML::Parser to parse a HTML file. My problem is that the html file can be from a URL or it can be a local file. How do I do this?

[KevinADC]

Isn't that covered in the HTML::Parser documentation?

[supra91]

Maybe my question is not clear. In my application what happens is that sometimes the html file to be parsed comes from a URL and sometimes the html file is stored locally in a directory and the app is directed to read the html file from that directory. Yes HTML::Parser can do both, but you have to use two different functions. I was looking to see if there was way to parse either file using one function call. The documentation does not list any function that I am looking for. Any more information is appriciated.

[KevinADC]

As far as I understand your question, the answer is: no. Getting files over the net from a URL is totally different than reading a local file from a local directory, there is no one function I know of that does both.

[supra91]

Thank you for your reply. I figured out that there is no one function that will do both. So what I am doing is that when I call the perl script the first argument is the url or html file name and second argument is "URL" for url and "local" for html file and then in the code for URL I use the get function and for local I use parse_file function.

-Rajesh