[NMLUG] Perl Help. Please.

[mattg at spinn.net (Matt Grommes)]

I would use one of the HTML parsing modules out there. It's a lot easier 
than rolling your own.


Jude Gabaldon wrote:

> Group,
>   I need help with the following perl problem.  I am using perl to parse 
> a web page and collect data the problem being that the matched text and 
> the potential variable on different lines (example below) 
> 
>                     </td>
>                   </tr>
>                   <tr>
>                     <td></td>
>                     <td>
>                       Car Color
>                     </td>
>                     <td colspan="2">
>                       Blue
>                     </td>
>                   </tr>
>                   <tr>
>                     <td></td>
>                     <td>
>                       Body Type
>                     </td>
>                     <td colspan="2">
>                       Two door
>                     </td>
>                   </tr>
> 
>                 <tr>
>                   <td colspan="4">
> 
> where Car Color is the matched text and Blue should be the stored 
> variable and where Body Type is the matched text and Two door is the 
> stored variable.  
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I guess I could remove the new 
> line characters and split the page up with new lines after </tr> but I 
> didn't know if there was a better way.  Another way might be to call lynx 
> and parse the page as it appears to a web browser.  Any suggestions?
> 
> Jude
> 
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