RE: CFHTTP question

[John Gedeon]

Bryan,
  Thanks for all the help. :)
John
At 12:58 PM 9/24/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>here is my suggestion...
>
><cfscript>
>// find the second anchor tag
>artistIndex = find("<a ", cfhttp.filecontent, find("<a ",
>cfhttp.filecontent)+2);
>// strip everything before the second anchor tag
>content = removeChars(cfhttp.filecontent,1,artistIndex);
>// artist name is all text between start and end anchor tags
>artistName = listRest(listFirst(content,"<"),">");
>// strip characters up to and including the first <br> tag
>content = removeChars(content,1,find("<br>",content)+3);
>// song name is all text before next <br> tag
>songName = listFirst(content,"<");
></cfscript>
>
>+-----------------------------------------------+
>Bryan Love
>   Macromedia Certified Professional
>   Internet Application Developer
>   Database Analyst
>TeleCommunication Systems
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>+-----------------------------------------------+
>
>"...'If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have
>peace'..."
>         - Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
>
>"Let's Roll"
>         - Todd Beamer, Flight 93
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Gedeon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 10:20 AM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: RE: CFHTTP question
>
>
>Bryan
>     below is the snapshot of the data i have. I want to get the artist name
>and song name in this case it is "Castlevania, Dracula New Class" and
>"Vampire Killer"
>
>John
><tr>
>          <td
>background="http://www.streamingsoundtracks.com/images/bg_name.gif";
>width="22%" nowrap>Visitors: <a href='http://www.perlonline.com'
>style="">47</a><br>
>          Requests: 1/Hour<br>
>          Listeners: 149/185</td>
>          <td align="center"
>background="http://www.streamingsoundtracks.com/images/bg_name.gif";
>width="56%" nowrap>
>          <a
>href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search/?mode=music&tag=nopa
>tience&keyword=Castlevania,
>Dracula New Class">Castlevania, Dracula New Class</a>
>           - <a
>href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search/?mode=music&tag=nopa
>tience&keyword=Konami">Konami</a><br>
>          Vampire Killer (7:05)<br>
>          <img
>src="http://www.streamingsoundtracks.com/images/simages/fourh.gif";
>border="0">
><br><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="">
></font>
></td>
>          <td align="center"
>background="http://www.streamingsoundtracks.com/images/bg_name.gif";
>width="22%">
>          <a onclick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','510','170','yes');return
>false;"
>href="http://www.streamingsoundtracks.com/cgi-bin/rating/stars/stars.pl?Cast
>levania_DNC">Rate
>It</a></td>
>        </tr>
>
>
>At 10:10 AM 9/24/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> >Text parsing is somewhat of a lost art.  It's easy to do, but difficult to
> >do well.  Your question is too general for me to provide a detailed answer.
> >If you want to provide a sample of the data you want to parse perhaps I can
> >be of some help...
> >
> >+-----------------------------------------------+
> >Bryan Love
> >   Macromedia Certified Professional
> >   Internet Application Developer
> >   Database Analyst
> >TeleCommunication Systems
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >+-----------------------------------------------+
> >
> >"...'If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have
> >peace'..."
> >         - Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
> >
> >"Let's Roll"
> >         - Todd Beamer, Flight 93
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: John Gedeon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 9:52 AM
> >To: CF-Talk
> >Subject: CFHTTP question
> >
> >
> >I have a cfhttp get call  to get another text webpage. I get the file fine
> >but I want to parse out the useful data from that page that i get and I am
> >not sure what the easiest way is. the data i am looking for is dynamic and
> >can be one to many words. but it always starts at the same spot. whats the
> >easiest way to parse it out.?
> >
> ><>< Proverbs 3:5 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on
> >your own understanding;"
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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