]> On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:21:26AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 06:56:25PM +0100, Pierre LAFFITTE wrote: > > Is it possible from a caml program, to give an internet adress, to get the result in a file or in a set of character to analyse it. > > I have been searching for exactly that some time ago, but i think it is > not possible. Your best guess currently is to call the external wget > program, save it to a temporary file, and then read it in. > > I agree that a full url-reading module would be a good addition to the > ocaml library though, java has it for example. Actually there are two (at least) ways of doing this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ocurl/ which is an OCaml wrapper around the Curl library. Or, you could use some Perl-fu with: http://www.merjis.com/developers/perl4caml/ which includes a wrapper around the Perl LWP and HTML::TreeBuilder libraries, so you could not only download the page, but also parse it into an HTML tree (the HTML::TreeBuilder parser is about the best parser ever written for parsing fuzzy, incorrect HTML, and there's really no way you would want reinvent this in OCaml). Rich. -- Richard Jones. http://www.annexia.org/ http://freshmeat.net/users/rwmj Merjis Ltd. http://www.merjis.com/ - improving website return on investment MONOLITH is an advanced framework for writing web applications in C, easier than using Perl & Java, much faster and smaller, reusable widget-based arch, database-backed, discussion, chat, calendaring: http://www.annexia.org/freeware/monolith/ ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners