The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List:
modid: Data::HTML2Results
DSLIP: adpOp
description: Parses arbitrary html to an array of arrays
userid: EARL (Earl Cahill)
chapterid: 6 (Data_Type_Utilities)
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similar:
none I know of that are really this easy to use
rationale:
Very nice for sort of screen scraping. Can take a page like this
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/all_time_stats/rosters/american_league/bal/1970_bat_avg.html
or
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/standings?group=conference
or
http://quote.yahoo.com/q?s=tyc+aol+tenf+orcl+msft+intc+witc+jdsu+t+a&d=v1
or soon this
http://quote.yahoo.com/q?s=tyc+aol+tenf+orcl+msft+intc+witc+jdsu+t+a&d=t
or say an inbox page from Yahoo! or hotmail or wherever,
and return an array of arrays of the data set you request. Requests
can be made based on number of columns in said set.
Should pretty well solve parsing problems for most anything that
can be mapped to an array of arrays.
enteredby: EARL (Earl Cahill)
enteredon: Mon Jul 23 20:16:29 2001 GMT
The resulting entry would be:
Data::
::HTML2Results adpOp Parses arbitrary html to an array of arrays EARL
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