Subject: Re: extracting data from html files
From: James Gibson (twistedhammer@subdimension.com)
Date: Sat Jun 29 2002 - 22:24:08 AKDT
On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Michael Fowler wrote:
> I just caught the tail end of this conversation with the mention of Perl.
> As an alternative to using Perl's regular expression, there is a Perl module
> on CPAN called HTML::TableExtract, which is ideally suited to parsing the
> HTML you describe.
<snip>
> I'm not sure how familiar the original poster is with Perl, so this may not
> be entirely appropriate, but for someone familiar with Perl this module can
> be a very powerful and easy to use tool.
Right on! I wasn't involved in the earlier discussion, but I can think of
a couple pet projects this makes a _lot_ easier.
Thanks for the concise example. Perl is great, but I don't always have
time to go rummage around on CPAN for the perfect module...
--James Gibson
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