APM: Parsing HTML

[Eric Ellington]

I do not know the answer to your question, but I have used
WWW::Mechanize in the past witch much success. I know the maintainer
monitors the Chicago PM boards, he is a nice guy and answers questions.


Eric



On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:00 PM, John Warner <jwarner at texas.net> wrote:
> All,
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> The problem:
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> my $url =
> “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”;
>
>
>
> my $ie = Win32::Watir->new( visible => 1, maximize => 0);
>
> print "Pointing to IE to found URL\n";
>
> $ie->goto($url);
>
>
>
> print "Clicking \"Detail View\" link in basket\n";
>
> $ie->getLink('linktext:', qr/Detail View/)->Click;
>
>
>
> print "Showing details of cart\n";
>
> $ie->getLink('linktext:', qr/Show Details/)->Click;
>
>
>
> my $ordertext = $ie->text;
>
> #my $ordertext = $ie->html;
>
> print $ordertext;
>
>
>
> #do useful processing here…
>
>
>
> 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…
>
>
>
> Thanks for your time!
>
>
>
> John Warner
>
> jwarner at texas.net
>
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Eric Ellington
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