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Recipe? (Score:2, Insightful)

by dlc (50) <reversethis-{gro.toorneves} {ta} {cld}> on 2003.04.25 10:26 (#19466) Homepage Journal

This would make a nice Cookbook recipe...

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(darren)

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- Re:Recipe? (Score:2)
  
  by gnat (29)
  
  D'oh, good point. I can't believe I didn't think of that. Thanks, applied. :-)
  --Nat
  - Re:Recipe? (Score:1)
    
    by prakash (2793)
    
    There's another module HTML::TableExtract to parse HTML tables. I have used this, and it is pretty nice. I haven't looked at HTML::TableContentParser, so can't really compare, yet.
    Also, look at WWW::Mechanize, which is really awesome for scraping web content. There is WWW::Mechanize::Shell, for writing quick scripts to this kinda stuff.
    Just some more info for you to chew on while you write that cookbook entry.
    /prakash
    - Re:Recipe? (Score:2)
      
      by gnat (29)
      
      I spent a long time looking for data with column headings for HTML::TableExtract to work on. I finally found some census data [census.gov], but after half an hour of trying, I couldn't make H::TE grok the nested table headings. I finally gave up and just documented HTML::TableContentParser. Sorry!
      --Nat

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