Great subject line... =)

You may wish to look at a HTML::Parser or a more specific module like HTML::TableExtract rather than throwing sed, awk and such at it. It has the annoying TD per line layout that will make it a real nightmare for breaking on columns. Worse, half the names are links and half aren't.

If you really wish to stick to tinkering with it yourself, at least there is only one table. You should be able to rip off the beginning to the <TABLE> tag, rip from the </TABLE> tag to the end, remove everything in <TH> containers, remove all <TDgt; and <TR> and </TD></TR> tags, change all remaining </TD<\n sequences into ";" or "|" or something you like.

And then, rewrite it everytime it breaks when they reformat that page.

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In reply to Re: Sneeky Snake by extremely
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