in reply to Parsing HTML with TreeBuilder

Is this what you mean? you want to tell if a row only contains cells like

<td><a href .... > only-a-link </a></td>

or does it also contain cells like

<td> text <a href .... > optional-link </a> more-text </td>

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Re: Re: Parsing HTML with TreeBuilder
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 20, 2002 at 07:12 UTC
    Yes, that is exactly what I mean. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks.
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Re: Re: Parsing HTML with TreeBuilder
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 20, 2002 at 07:16 UTC
    The row can contain both types of cells, and I would like to be able to tell the difrence between the to kinds of cells. The one with just links and the ofhter with links inbedded in text segments.
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      Assuming that $ele is an HTML::Element object containing your <td> element, then:

      if (grep {!ref($_) or $_->tag ne "a"} $td->content_list) {
  # The element has non-link text
} else {
  # The element only has <a></a> elements in it
}

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      See the HTML::Element documentation for more information. There may be a more efficient method than the above, but you havn't specified your problem well enough for me to see it.

      perl -pe '"I lo*`+$^X$\"$]!$/"=~m%(.*)%s;$_=$1;y^`+*^e v^#$&V"+@( NO CARRIER'

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