Question and FAQ

Robert Zazueta (Robert_Zazueta@intuit.com)
Thu, 2 Jul 1998 13:09:10 -0700 

     I just subscribed to this list. Is there a FAQ available somewhere so 
     that I don;t end up asking a lot of pointless questions that have 
     already been asked? (beside this one -- though I did check the archive 
     site and couldn;t find the FAQ).
     
     The reason I joined, though, is to ask this quick pointless, probably 
     already asked question: Why does the get (URL) command return a big 
     ol' string rather than treat the HTML document as a file? I'm writing 
     a program that will search web pages for specific information and, for 
     some reason, none of my grep, index or regular expression command want 
     to bother with this string, depite the fact that I've already 
     determined the string isn;t empty (and, by doing a quick dump of the 
     page, I visually verified that the info I was searching for was 
     there).
     
     If get returned a filehandle or even a list separated by return lines, 
     I'd be golden.
     
     Thanks!
     Rob