hi!,

I'm trying to parse this html using html tokerparser.

HTML:

<div class="text12">This text I don't need.</div>
<div class="text12">This long test that is at least 201 characters in 
+length is what I want to parse.
<br><br>
Here is a list that I want to retrieve in this "div" tag.<br>
List:<br>
<li>item 1
<li>item 2
<li>item 4
<div>

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Now since, I don't want to retrieve both div tags, i'll use a if command to check if the character length is at least 200.

Now my problem is when I use the below code, I retrieve the text only , but not the HTML, therefore leaving out the <li> tags and giving me spaces. Once retrieving the value, I can't really do anything to format the text I retrieved to a HTML list.

Is there anyway to work around this? Perhaps another command that allows Tokerparser to retrieve the HTML tags withing the 'div' tags rather then ignorning them.

my coding:




while( $token = $stream->get_token) {

if ($token->[0] eq 'S' and $token->[1] eq 'div' and ($token->[2]{'clas
+s'} || '') eq 'text12') {
    
         $description = $stream->get_trimmed_text('/div');

         $num = length($description);
        
                if ($num > 200) {  

        print "$description<br><br>";

                        }
   }
}

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the above just prints out the text that turns out to look like this:

#description value:
Here is a list that I want to retrieve in this "div" tag.
List:item 1 item 2 item 4

#I want to take the description value and print it out as HTML but sin
+ce the <li> tags aren't entact, I can't properly display the list in 
+a browser.

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Thanks!
Tanger

In reply to HTML TokeParser - help with using get_text, get_trimmed_text by tanger

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