I'm trying to get the response of a curl call into a variable in perl.
my $foo = `curl yadd yadda`;
print $foo;
does not work. When I run this at the command line the curl call prints all its output correctly in the terminal, but the variable is not filled with that data.
Is there a way to do this without installing and calling the Perl curl lib?
What do you really want to do? Use curl at all costs, or grab the contents of a web page?
A more perlish way of doing this (which relies on no external programs that may or may not be installed on the next machine where you need to do this) would be:
use LWP::Simple;
my $content = get("http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1015438/")
or die "no such luck\n";
If you want to see why the GET failed, or grab multiple pages from the same site, you'll need to use a bit more machinery. perldoc lwpcook will get you started.