[LA.pm] stuck with pulling out variables from a reference

Peter Scott Peter at PSDT.com
Sat May 28 14:56:02 PDT 2005


At 12:46 PM -0400 5/28/05, David Heayn wrote:
>hi, i've been playing with the tableextract module for a few hours
>now and i really like it.
>
>i have found a problem that i can't quite solve myself.
>
>basically, i'm trying to extract earnings data from a stock site. i'm
>stuck at the point where i can grab the table itself. however, i want
>to convert the individual cells to their own variables (ie Q1->$Q1,
>Q2->$Q2...)

I doubt that :-)

>and i'm lost with the sample code. could you point me in
>the right direction?

perldoc -q 'variable name'

Data::Dumper is your friend.


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