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<p class=MsoNormal>All,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>It’s been a while since I did any Perl programming and
I could use a pointer. I work as a lab admin at Dell where one of my job
duties is to order equipment for the various teams I support. The process
works like this: we have the teams configure a system in a shopping cart
at Dell.com then submit the shopping cart to the lab admins. We, the lab
admins, take the information from the cart (quantity, SKUs, and descriptions),
do a whole bunch of manual manipulation and then paste the processed info into
a tool we use for internal ordering.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The problem:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I have been using Win32::Watir to interact with dell.com to
navigate to the SKUs in a shopping cart. I have thus far been unable to
get data in a format I can use from the shopping cart. I get some of the
HTML but not the stuff in the frame with the SKUs when I implement HTML::Parser
start. I can get the information I am after with the Parser text function
but without any kind of separation that I could write a useful regex to
separate.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>my $url = “<a
href="http://ecomm.dell.com/dellstore/basket_retrieve.aspx?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&itemtype=CFG&cart_id=1013663916825&toEmail=john_warner@dell.com">http://ecomm.dell.com/dellstore/basket_retrieve.aspx?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&itemtype=CFG&cart_id=1013663916825&toEmail=john_warner@dell.com</a>”;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>my $ie = Win32::Watir->new( visible => 1, maximize
=> 0);<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>print "Pointing to IE to found URL\n";<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>$ie->goto($url);<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>print "Clicking \"Detail View\" link in
basket\n";<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>$ie->getLink('linktext:', qr/Detail View/)->Click;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>print "Showing details of cart\n";<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>$ie->getLink('linktext:', qr/Show Details/)->Click;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>my $ordertext = $ie->text;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>#my $ordertext = $ie->html;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>print $ordertext;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>#do useful processing here…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The crux of my problem (I think) is that I don’t know
what type of data (array, hash, etc) that $ie->html or $ie->text
returns. Perhaps if I knew that I could make headway on processing…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for your time!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>John Warner<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>jwarner@texas.net<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>H: 512.251.1270<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>C: 512.426.3813<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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