Ok, so english not being my main language has a lot to do with the fact that I first mistook parse to paste, but that's another story...

I totally understand now what is the meaning of parse, but when I tried to put it at work, it cracked.

I was trying to match some tags from inside an HTML document, so I thought, Ok, what's better than HTML::...s, looked at HTML::Parser, and here is something from the perldoc:

The `HTML::Parser' will tokenize an HTML document when the parse() method is called by invoking various callback methods. The document to be parsed can be supplied in arbitrary chunks.

So? what do I do next? I know that it has now parsed it and understood it.. but what do I get?

Let's say I want to fetch a remote html file using LWP::Simple then search the file for the occurence of a certain criteria <h3>foo</h3> and then get everything after that that is in between <EM> tags until I reach an <HR>. I don't think it's hard to do, but I'm not familiar with the way I need to do this, cause I'm not understanding what to do with the parser.

anyone ready to give me a bit of explanation on that?

--Chady

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Chady | http://chady.net/

In reply to Parse... then what? (HTML Parsing problems) by Chady

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