On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 09:36, Paul Kraus wrote:
> Yes I have read the POD in fact I have them printed out in front of me.
> Unless I am missing something and I doubt I am since I have read it like
> 4 times. All you can really do using mechanize is parse the content for
> links and forms.
>
> I need to parse out data from the page that is neither a link or form.
>
> I need to read the content a line at a time and using a regex find the
> content I want to isolate.
>
> Your second link all though helpful also seems to be only dealing with
> the above mentioned conditions.
>
> Sorry if this seems trivial. I am not new to perl but $a-content() is
> not working the way I would expect it to behave.
>
> The regex I would use is /class="statement" align="center"/
Paul,
I'd love to help, but don't have anything to test against. Can you send
me the results from $a->content so that I can see what you're getting?
Couldn't you just save the results from $a->content to a scalar, then
use a regex on it?
my $results = $a->content();
$results =~ m/what I'm looking for/;
Also, from the POD for WWW::Mechanize:
Mech is well suited for use in testing web applications. If you use one
of the Test::*, like Test::HTML::Lint modules, you can check the fetched
content and use that as input to a test call.
use Test::More;
like( $a->content(), qr/$expected/, "Got expected content" );
Hope this helps,
Kevin
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