Re: Sorting HTML tables

2004-08-06 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Aug 4, Perl said: >die "You must enter an argument. \n" if $#ARGV <0; I'd suggest using: die ... if @ARGV == 0; because it's easier to read and understand. >$logfile = chomp ($ARGV); Is that really your code? That doesn't make any sense to me. I think you meant: $logfile = $ARGV[0];

RE: Sorting HTML tables

2004-08-05 Thread Paul Harwood
The table is fairly complicated. I'll take a look at those modules though. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Chris Devers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 5:03 PM Posted To: Perl Conversation: Sorting HTML tables Subject: Re: Sorting HTML tables On W

Re: Sorting HTML tables

2004-08-04 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Perl wrote: I wrote some code to identify and print HTML tables below Don't do that. HTML is tremendously difficult to analyze properly with tools like regular expressions. You're much, much better off using a proper parser library that can build up a tree model of the html t

Sorting HTML tables

2004-08-04 Thread Perl
I wrote some code to identify and print HTML tables below: use strict; my @table; my $logfile; my $counter; my $inc; my @array; die "You must enter an argument. \n" if $#ARGV <0; $logfile = chomp ($ARGV); foreach my $line(<>){ if ($line =~ /(TABLE)(.+)/) { $inc++;