Hi Peter, I know this is a bit late but I just remembered there's a pretty cool screen scraping plugin for Firefox called Outwit Hub. I've used it a few times and it's worked very nicely. Probably too late for you now since you've written LC handlers to do it.
Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Peter M. Brigham, MD <pmb...@gmail.com>wrote: > I have a customprop, CYPdata, that is an array, each element of which is > an array itself. I am scraping the data to build CYPdata from an HTML page > on the web, and filling it via script by parsing the HTML. There is an odd > bug that I'm trying to get to the bottom of, and something strange is > happening when I do the following in a test button: > > on mouseUp > put the CYPdata of this stack into CYParray > put CYParray["fluvoxamine"] into aFLV > put CYParray["doxepin"] into aDOX > put aFLV is an array into testFLV > put aDOX is an array into testDOX > breakpoint > end mouseUp > > In the debugger variable pane at the breakpoint, expanding the array > CYParray shows the keys, which are a whole list of drugs (as it should be), > and each key/drug is indeed indicated as containing an array (with the > little gray expansion triangle at the left). If I examine > CYParray["fluvoxamine"] by clicking the expansion triangle, it shows the > elements of that array, as expected. Same for CYParray["doxepin"]. The > correct data is there in both cases. However, the aDOX variable does not > display as an array (no expansion triangle) and testDOX = false, whereas > aFLV is indeed an array, as displayed in the debugger and confirmed by > testFLV = true. > > What could be going on here? As it happens, the "doxepin" case is handled > differently from the "fluvoxamine" case when I parse the HTML in loading > the array, since they appear in slightly different contexts, so that must > be the source of the difference, but how can the debugger show the > "doxepin" array keys properly but somehow CYParray["doxepin"] not an array? > Any ideas? > > -- Peter > > Peter M. Brigham > pmb...@gmail.com > http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
