Programming

Why Isn’t This Tool Part of Every Operating System?

What am I missing here?

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Years back I sometimes needed to scrape data from website forms. I’d write simple Perl code that looked something like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);
use LWP::UserAgent;
$var1=”2012/08/01";
$button=”Send”;