Re: Working with source of returned web page

If you've got the source of the page, you should feed it through something like Toke::HTMLParser to find the specific bit you're looking for.

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Re^2: Working with source of returned web page by clone4 (Sexton) on Jun 10, 2008 at 20:39 UTC
wow that's really handy, but when it comes to more specific strings, which aren't defined by any html tags, then it's necessary to use regex anyway... But still as I were saying very useful! Thanks again	[reply]
Re^3: Working with source of returned web page by Popcorn Dave (Abbot) on Jun 10, 2008 at 22:48 UTC
It's been a while since I used that module but if I recall correctly, it parses everything in to a token and the tokens not defined as an HTML tag should be defined as a text token. Take a look at HTML::TokeParser help - parsing headlines and you'll see a quick program I wrote to dump an HTML page to tokenized output. Run that on your page and I think you'll see you don't need to do the regex per se, but rather need to check text tokens to find what you're after. Good luck! Update: Changed link from scratchpad to node as per suggestion by ww Revolution. Today, 3 O'Clock. Meet behind the monkey bars. I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code	[reply]