Hi Ben,

----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Miller
Sent: 21.04.2004, 7:49 Uhr

>Hello,
>
>This is my first post and I'm working on my first real Perl program.
>I'm trying to feed an array using information scraped off another
>web page. I've got the scraping working no problem, but each of the
>words I pull from the other page are treated as part of a single
>variable. For example:
>
>while (my $tag  = $stream->get_tag("a")) { my $result =
>($stream->get_trimmed_text("/a")); print "$result\n";
>}
>
>
>The while loop pulls all text which sits between 'a' tags on the
>page being scraped. I'd like to force $result to accept each word as
>part of an array. Any clues?

You could assign an array reference to $result:

my $result = [($stream->get_trimmed_text("/a"))];

if get_trimmed_test() returns a list.

HTH,

Jan
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