Toolserver:~gregbard/bin/fetch articles.pl
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#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict; # 'strict' insists that all variables be declared
use diagnostics; # 'diagnostics' expands the cryptic warnings
require 'bin/fetch_articles_cats2.pl';
undef $/; # undefines the separator. Can read one whole file in one scalar.
sub fetch_articles {
my ($article, @articles, $cat, $cats, $text, %new_article, $cont_cat);
my (%excluded_cats, %cat_hash, $text_cats, $newcats, @tmp, $newcat, $basecat, $new_articles, %newcat_hash);
$cats=$_[0]; $new_articles=$_[1]; $newcats=$_[2];
foreach $cat ( @$cats ){ $cat_hash{$cat}=1; }
# Start harvesting the articles from these categories
foreach $cat ( @$cats ) {
&fetch_articles_cats($cat, \@tmp, \@articles);
print "<font color=red>Error! No articles in $cat !!!</font><br>\n" unless (@articles);
foreach $newcat (@tmp) {
next if ( exists $cat_hash{$newcat} || exists $newcat_hash{$newcat});
print "Detected new $newcat in $cat<br>\n";
$newcat_hash{$newcat}=1;
push (@$newcats, $newcat);
}
foreach $article (@articles) {
next if ($article =~ /:/); # ignore everything outside of the article namespace
next if ( exists $new_article{$article} );
$new_article{$article}=1; # discovered new artile
push (@$new_articles, $article);
}
}
}
1;