Re^2: Regular Expression: I need a regex to fetch data from an html file

[Anonymous Monk]

<tr><td id='Auf'>50956866</td>
<td id='Ku'>D510848</td>
<td id='Rec'>18.10.2011</td>
<td id='Re'>EUR 118,95</td>
<td id='Za'>EUR 0,00</td>
<td id='Off'>EUR 118,95</td>

this was my html file from where I wanted to extract the data but finally I have the solution just wanted to share this with you monks the Regex:

 <td id='AuftragsId'>(.*)</td>\s*<td id='KundenNr'>(.*)</td>\s*<td id=
+'RechnungsDatum'>(.*)</td>\s*<td id='RechnungsBetragAktuell'>(.*)</td
+>\s*<td id='ZahlungsBetragAktuell'>(.*)</td>\s*<td id='OffenePosten'>
+(.*)</td>

[bitingduck]

There are a lot of nice modules in CPAN that will do your extraction in a more robust way-- i.e. they won't break if the maker of the table makes small changes in the text.

Some places to start:
HTML::TableExtract
HTML::TreeParser
HTML::TokeParser


Unless you're trying to do something really out there (and maybe even then), someone has probably already solved more than half of your problem and posted a module that does it reliably.