• Taylor Hillegeist (4/4) Aug 31 2015 I thought that perhaps spawing a process would work but
• Adam D. Ruppe (6/7) Aug 31 2015 Try the browse function from std.process:
• Taylor Hillegeist (2/9) Aug 31 2015 Browse is obviously the coolest solution. :)
• cym13 (14/18) Aug 31 2015 Use curl:
• Taylor Hillegeist (4/8) Aug 31 2015 Actually executeShell worked for me thanks for the reference to

"Taylor Hillegeist" <taylorh140 gmail.com> writes:

I thought that perhaps spawing a process would work but

execute("PATH TO HTML 
FILE",null,Config.none,size_t.max,dirName(exepath));

Didn't seem to work? any ideas?

"Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 31 August 2015 at 22:21:20 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist 
wrote:
 I thought that perhaps spawing a process would work but

Try the browse function from std.process:

http://dlang.org/phobos/std_process.html#browse

What it does is execute a browser process with the given 
argument. I think a filename will work as well as a url.

"Taylor Hillegeist" <taylorh140 gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 31 August 2015 at 22:24:28 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
 On Monday, 31 August 2015 at 22:21:20 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist 
 wrote:
 I thought that perhaps spawing a process would work but

 Try the browse function from std.process:

 http://dlang.org/phobos/std_process.html#browse

 What it does is execute a browser process with the given 
 argument. I think a filename will work as well as a url.

Browse is obviously the coolest solution. :)

"cym13" <cpicard openmailbox.org> writes:

On Monday, 31 August 2015 at 22:21:20 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist 
wrote:
 I thought that perhaps spawing a process would work but

 execute("PATH TO HTML 
 FILE",null,Config.none,size_t.max,dirName(exepath));

 Didn't seem to work? any ideas?

Use curl:

void main(string[] args) {
     import std.stdio, std.net.curl, std.algorithm;

     "http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Web_scraping"
          .byLine
          .each!writeln;
}

compile with   dmd -L-lcurl test.d

See http://dlang.org/phobos/std_net_curl.html


Also note that if you want to spawn a process you have to specify 
an executable, giving a HTML file as your example suggests 
wouldn't work.

"Taylor Hillegeist" <taylorh140 gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 31 August 2015 at 22:21:20 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist 
wrote:
 I thought that perhaps spawing a process would work but

 execute("PATH TO HTML 
 FILE",null,Config.none,size_t.max,dirName(exepath));

 Didn't seem to work? any ideas?

Actually executeShell worked for me thanks for the reference to 
Std.process.