Re^5: How to grab a portion of file with regex

You make some valid points. The example in the question didn't seem to need the content of the div.
I do agree that working with the DOM is a much better way to parse HTML.

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Re^6: How to grab a portion of file with regex by Anonymous Monk on Mar 15, 2013 at 06:39 UTC
You make some valid points. The example in the question didn't seem to need to content of the div. I do agree that working with the DOM is a much better way to parse HTML. < :) `#!/usr/bin/perl -- use strict; use warnings; use XML::LibXML; my $dom = XML::LibXML->new( qw/ recover 2 / )->load_html( location => q{junk.html} ); for ( $dom->findnodes(q{ //div[ contains( @class, 'lastUnit' ) ] }) ){ print "\n", $_->nodePath, "\n\n$_\n"; } __END__` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^6: How to grab a portion of file with regex
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 15, 2013 at 06:39 UTC

You make some valid points. The example in the question didn't seem to need to content of the div. I do agree that working with the DOM is a much better way to parse HTML. <

#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict; use warnings; use XML::LibXML;
my $dom = XML::LibXML->new(
    qw/ recover 2 /
)->load_html(
    location => q{junk.html}
);
for (
    $dom->findnodes(q{
//div[
    contains( @class, 'lastUnit' )
]
    })
){
    print "\n", $_->nodePath, "\n\n$_\n";
}
__END__
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