How to Automate Process with Perl

[Bobby Smith]

I want to try to automate a process using Perl. At the moment, there is a web page which has got a text file as an attachment. Currently I open up the web page, save the attachment and then FTP it to a unix box. I then log onto another unix machine and navigate to a perl script called MarginReport.pl . Finally I run the perl script passing the saved text file as its only argument, i.e. MarginReport.pl new_margins.txt . This is a very manual process and I want to try to automate it using Perl. The existing perl script just opens the text file, does some formatting and then runs a stored procedure to insert the data into a database table. The web site is an online incident management ticketing system which has got a unique reference number on each web page.
How can the above manual process be more automated?

[numberwhun]

Why not share what you have tried so far and we can help you from there.

Regards,

Jeff

[chorny]

LWP, WWW::Mechanize, Net::SSH2::Simp le