The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List:
modid: Data::html2results
DSLIP: adpOp
description: Parses arbitrary html to an array of arrays
userid: EARL (Earl Cahill)
chapterid: 6 (Data_Type_Utilities)
communities:
quite a bit at my work :)
similar:
none I know of that are really this easy to use
rationale:
Very nice for sort of screen scraping. Can take a page like this
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/all_time_stats/rosters/american_league/bal/1970_bat_a
vg.html
or
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/standings?group=conference
or
http://quote.yahoo.com/q?s=tyc+aol+tenf+orcl+msft+intc+witc+jdsu+t+a&d=v1
or soon this
http://quote.yahoo.com/q?s=tyc+aol+tenf+orcl+msft+intc+witc+jdsu+t+a&d=t
or say an inbox page from Yahoo! or hotmail or wherever,
and return an array of arrays of the data set you request. Requests
can be made based on number of columns in said set.
Should pretty well solve parsing problems for most anything that
can be mapped to an array of arrays.
I submitted this sometime ago and never heard back. One of my
co-workers said that once you are a CPAN author as I am, you don't
get namespace responses. Not sure if that is right or not, but I
would like to change the case to match my soon to be released
Data::results2html which goes the other way.
Thanks, Earl
enteredby: EARL (Earl Cahill)
enteredon: Tue Oct 2 00:41:30 2001 GMT
The resulting entry would be:
Data::
::html2results adpOp Parses arbitrary html to an array of arrays EARL
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