Hi Jan,
Thanks for your help. That's what I need. I had tried something similar
earlier using () to surround the variable rather than []. My next question
is: when I try to print a specific member of the array I get an error
message if I use 'print $result[0];' for example. In fact, any thing I try
to do to the array such as list the number of members returns an error.
Thanks,
Ben
On 4/21/04 8:02 AM, Jan Eden wrote:
> 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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