carric has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
I separated out the URL as a var so I could debug it and verify that it is INDEED incrementing the URL by 10, and it is, but it returns the same 10 ads until it hits $total, so of course I have 74 identical 10-ad blocks (not what I'm after obviously). I have tried just about everything I can think of and about ready to impail myself with a grapefruit spoon in the front yard.. hmm.. wonder why we call it "grape"frut.. sure as hell doesn't look like a grape.#!/usr/bin/perl use lib qw( ..); use HTML::TableExtract; use LWP::Simple; use Data::Dumper; my $te = new HTML::TableExtract( depth=>3,count=>0); # which table do +we want # Get the total number of records according to MDJONLINE my $content = get( "http://www.mdjonline.com/classifieds/legals/index.inn?loc=detail&main +=Legals&sub=Foreclosures&Count=0") || die "Couldn't get URL\n"; $content =~ m{Total\s?ads: (\d+)} || die "No dice\n"; my $total = $1; # Set some intial values for record number and iterations my $iter = ($total - ($total % 10)); # calculate iterations to nearest + num divisible by 10 my $recnum = 0; # number of start record for next dump while($recnum <= $iter) { my $mdjURL = "http://www.mdjonline.com/classifieds/legals/inde +x.inn?loc=detail&main=Legals&sub=Foreclosures&Count=".$recnum; my $content = get($mdjURL); $te->parse($content); foreach $ts ($te->table_states) { foreach $row ($ts->rows) { print Dumper $row; } } $recnum += 10; }
Declaring $te inside the while loop makes it reinitialize each time.#!/usr/bin/perl use lib qw( ..); use HTML::TableExtract; use LWP::Simple; use Data::Dumper; # Get the total number of records according to MDJONLINE my $content = get( "http://www.mdjonline.com/classifieds/legals/index.inn?loc=detail&main +=Legals&sub=Foreclosures&Count=0") || die "Couldn't get URL\n"; $content =~ m{Total\s?ads: (\d+)} || die "No dice\n"; my $total = $1; # Set some intial values for record number and iterations my $iter = ($total - ($total % 10)); # calculate iterations to nearest + num divisible by 10 my $recnum = 0; # number of start record for next dump while($recnum <= $iter) { my $te = new HTML::TableExtract( depth=>3,count=>0); my $mdjURL = "http://www.mdjonline.com/classifieds/legals/inde +x.inn?loc=detail&main=Legals&sub=Foreclosures&Count=".$recnum; my $content = get($mdjURL); $te->parse($content); foreach $ts ($te->table_states) { foreach $row ($ts->rows) { print Dumper $row; } } $recnum += 10; }
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Re: HTML::Table::Extract
by Jaap (Curate) on Nov 22, 2003 at 10:53 UTC | |
by carric (Beadle) on Nov 22, 2003 at 19:46 UTC |