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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Need Assistance -- Network Programming
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 02:52:23 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 13:47:44 +0000, Lester Thorpe wrote:

> I need to read through an HTML file, find all external HTTP(S) links,
> and then determine if those external links are still viable, i.e.
> if the pages to which they link still exist.
> 
> Perl is the language of choice.

Does Perl have anything like BeautifulSoup
<https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/>?