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I'm Andy Lester, and I like to test stuff. I also write for the Perl Journal, and do tech edits on books. Sometimes I write code, too.

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Monday January 26, 2004
10:21 PM

Today's Mech doodad: Fetching the new Code Complete

[ #17025 ]
Steve McConnell, author of the landmark I has put up the chapters for the 2nd edition in PDF format on his website. I needed to download them to take to Kinko's to have printed, since I do all my best editing with a red pen on paper. This little script did it for me.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;

my $start = "http://www.stevemcconnell.com/cc2/cc.htm";

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new( autocheck => 1 );
$mech->get( $start );

my @links = $mech->find_all_links( url_regex => qr/\d+.+\.pdf$/ );

for my $link ( @links ) {
    my $url = $link->url_abs;
    my $filename = $url;
    $filename =~ s[^.+/][];

    print "Fetching $url";
    $mech->get( $url, ':content_file' => $filename );

    print "   ", -s $filename, " bytes\n";
}


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  • yoink (Score:3, Informative)

    by goon (3162) on 2004.01.27 1:29 (#27769) Homepage Journal

    thanks for looking out for this. I enjoy reading bits of code complete on fridays while I'm ordering the fish and chips [geocities.com].

    having a quick look [stevemcconnell.com] (no mention of literate programming [c2.com]) it appears the c examples have been replaced with java :( - I would have been happier with cleaner examples in c.


    update no I was wrong.... cpp, vb and java examples included.

    --
    bootload [netspace.net.au], groking softwa
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