[Pdx-pm] HTML::Parser help

[John Labovitz]

On Mar 4, 2005, at 1:14 PM, Thomas J Keller wrote:

> I find I have to parse an html file to extract some data. I installed 
> HTML::Parser today, but  I'm having trouble understanding how to write 
> the subs that get me what I want. Does anyone know of a good tutorial, 
> or some well commented examples?

I recommend using HTML::Tree (and its associated classes, 
HTML::TreeBuilder and HTML::Element), not HTML::Parser directly.

Once you've got HTML::Tree installed, look at the HTML::Element 
documentation, specifically at the look_down() method.  That's one that 
I tend to use a lot.  Also extract_links().


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