CPAN is not a TV channel about politics, nope.
It stands for Comprehensive Perl Archive Network.
It is a gold mine where you can dig amongst close to 15,000 Perl modules. No need to reinvent the wheel, you're very likely to find a module that suits your need in CPAN.
This archive is one of the strength of the Perl community. Most of the modules are open-source and you can scan through 20,000,000 lines of code. There is great material there for beginners to chew on!
The Strawberry Perl distribution includes a full tool chain to install Perl modules from CPAN (as you would do from Linux). This is the main difference with ActivePerl.
ActivePerl allows you to go through its PPM (Perl Packet Manager) system to install pre-compiled modules. You can also download CPAN source code and compile it yourself but you will have to deal with the dependencies yourself.
When installing a module from CPAN, you will automatically pull all dependencies on that module as well, making your install as easy as typing cpan at a DOS prompt.
This will open the cpan shell. Typing help will display all possible commands.
If you know the name of your module, just type install ModuleName
RankSearch
CPAN is the place where I'll start in order to investigate core functionalities for the RankSearch.pl script (for http requests and html parsing).
I posted on the Websearch Help forum to see if anybody could answer the question about RankSearch.pl violating Google's terms of service.
French expression of the day:
Deep snow in the Winter, tall grain in the Summer: "Janvier rigoureux, an très heureux" and "Vaut mieux voir un chien enragé que soleil en janvier." (litt. Better see an enraged dog than sun in January)
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ReplyDeleteHemm... good tutorial. so how you compile script on windows ? make it exe ?
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