[ale] Parsing non-XML web pages?

[Fletch]

>>>>> "Brian" == Brian J Dowd <bdowd at dentfirst.com> writes:

    Brian> Anyone know of any good tools which would help simplify the
    Brian> parsing of specific data out of a downloaded html page? I'm
    Brian> looking to pull out specific numbers and data out of pages
    Brian> which have been wget'ted. This particular wheel *must* have
    Brian> been previously invented...

        Perl and HTML::TreeBuilder.

http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1272/sam05030008/


        The author of that article also has a book on the same topic
coming out RSN (it supposedly has just gone to the printers, so
. . . ).  Amazon alreaedy has it up for preorder, ISBN 0596001789.


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