CIS 2279 Homework Assignment #14

CIS 2279 Homework Assignment #14

Due Thursday, Dec 18, 2008

All files created must be saved in your class directory /mnt/homes/CLASSES/CIS2279/<username>

Create a perl script named lab14.pl in your user directory. The script must perform the following operations:
1. Prompt the user to enter a date (year, month and day) to retrieve LSC weather observations.
2. Retrieve station observation data from http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu/cgi-bin/logger.pl
3. Print the following data to the screen for the requested date: high temperature, low temperature, average temperature, highest wind speed, and total precipitation. Print all temperature values in both Celcius and Farenheit. Print the times that all highs and lows occurred.
NOTE: Date for a given date may be requested by specifying parameters on the URL. Example for requesting data for Dec 1, 2008:
wget -q -O - http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu/cgi-bin/logger.pl?year=2008&jday=336
A good perl example:
$url = 'http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu/cgi-bin/logger.pl\?year='.$year.'\&jday='.$jday; @linedata = `wget -q -O - $url`;
Note the back-slashes before the ? and & characters along with the use of single quotes used when defining the value for $url.

last updated: 15 Dec 2008 15:20