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Opening a File on a Website in Text Format? 4

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sdslrn123

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Jan 17, 2006
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This is more a thought exrcise than anything as I am trying to understand how Perl interacts with web.

If I have a website with a list of film titles
-each film title when clicked opening upto a new page
--each page contains info about film as well as a link to a text document with the script of the film (which can be opened or saved)

I want to grab all the text from one specific actor in a specific film.

Usually, I would just ask the user to save the files to the same file as the program. But, is there a way where if the user just inputs a film-title at command line I can automatically check whether such a FILM_NAME exists by asking program to check:

If it does exist then Program will automatically open a text file at the webpage, search through it and remove the necessary data from specific actor?

Sorry, if this is a weird problem!
 
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