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[2005-05-27] Bit vector, using Perl vec
A bit vector is just an array of bits; subsets of bits within the bytes have some meaning. That allows more compact storage for certain types of data. For example, if you only needed boolean on-off values, you can store eight values in one byte.

[2005-05-27] LWP (Library for WWW in Perl)
If you want to automatically process web pages to extract data, you have a number of tools available. You can bring a web page down to your computer using "curl" or "wget"


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