Just won ZYZZYVA contest

[thedarkages]

I just won a ZYZZYVA contest, and am getting one of their anthologies. You had to guess the number of literary magazines featured on NewPages.com. I looked at the data, and wrote the following program (with a little help from comp.lang.perl.misc):

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use warnings;
use strict;
use diagnostics;

use HTML::TokeParser;
my $fh = \*main::DATA;
my $p = HTML::TokeParser->new($fh) || die "Bad open: $! \n";
my $litmags = 0;

while (my $token=$p->get_tag('h3')){
$litmags++;
}


print "Number of Literary Magazines: $litmags\.\n";
# put the contents of the New Pages web page below the __DATA__ line
__DATA__

I am so not a programmer! I could have fetched the pages, but they needed to be merged, and I have no idea how to elegantly merge two HTML documents programmatically.

Face it, I'm just a n00b. But I did win the anthology.

Comments

[omarius.livejournal.com]

Shoot, I'm no programmer either, so I think that is the shizznitz. You won an anthology with Perl. I love the very idea of it.

[vlforman.livejournal.com]

so cool.