RosettaCodeData/Task/Web-scraping/Standard-ML/web-scraping-1.ml

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Standard ML

val getTime = fn url =>
let
val fname = "/tmp/fConv" ^ (String.extract (Time.toString (Posix.ProcEnv.time()),7,NONE) );
val shellCommand = " fetch -o - \""^ url ^"\" | sed -ne 's/^.*alt=.Los Angeles:\\(.* (Daylight Saving)\\).*$/\\1/p' " ;
val me = ( Posix.FileSys.mkfifo
(fname,
Posix.FileSys.S.flags [ Posix.FileSys.S.irusr,Posix.FileSys.S.iwusr ]
) ;
Posix.Process.fork ()
)
in
if (Option.isSome me) then
let
val fin =TextIO.openIn fname
in
( Posix.Process.sleep (Time.fromReal 0.5) ;
TextIO.inputLine fin before
(TextIO.closeIn fin ; OS.FileSys.remove fname )
)
end
else
( OS.Process.system ( shellCommand ^ " > " ^ fname ^ " 2>&1 " ) ;
SOME "" before OS.Process.exit OS.Process.success
)
end;
print ( valOf (getTime "http://www.time.org"));