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?

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.

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.

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.

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. :)