Re: help parsing HTML code
gil cohen (cohengil4@hotmail.com)
Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:01:24 -0500
I have assimilated this knowledge.
>From: Marcel Grunauer <marcel@codewerk.com>
>To: libwww@perl.org
>Subject: Re: help parsing HTML code
>Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:08:26 +0000
>
>In message <F217Vux1Zcn8TtEvzox0000139d@hotmail.com>, "gil cohen" writes:
>
> >You don't any of that weird stuff. All you need is a simple regex. In
>that
> >$res->is_sucess if, put something like:
> >$content =~ m/<input type=\"text\" size=\"10\"
>name=\"video_fec_errors_rx\"
> >value=\"(.*?)\" READONLY>/;
> >$value = $1;
> >
> >and now $value has what value is equal to.
>
>Until someone decides to rearrange the parameters or make them uppercase
>or forgo quotes or split them among several lines.
>
>Better use one of the HTML parsing modules.
>
>BTW, no need to escape the quotes in the regex. And what happens if
>there is no match? Then $1 has an undefined value.
>
>Marcel
>
>--
>We are Perl. Your table will be assimilated. Your waiter will adapt to
>service us. Surrender your beer. Resistance is futile.
> -- London.pm strategy aka "embrace and extend" aka "mark and sweep"
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