I have recently been assigned to write some Perl scripts to download
information from web pages. I just joined the mailing list. Unfortunately,
it appears a FAQ is not available. I am a journeyman programmer in Perl.
After reading the O'Reilly books, it appears that libwww is the correct
tool. I am looking for tutorials and sample programs that download web
pages and parse the HTML to get the data. I have looked at perl.com and read
the O'Reilly books and it appears that I need to use LWP and the
HTML::Parser commands. Unfortunately, the documentation is not robust enough
for me to figure HTML::Parser out. Most of the data is in tables created by
MS Front Page, and it puts out very buggy HTML (unclosed tables, anyone?) so
HTML::TableExtract crashes.
Does anyone know of books (unfortunately "Web Client Programming" by Wong is
out of print), magazine articles or web references that will aim me in the
right direction? I am the sort of programmer that sample scripts are worth
10 times their weight in documentation.
Thanks in advance
Celeste Suliin Burris
Systems Administrator
Tacoma Economic Development Department
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
