Everyone was so helpful with my last question that I'm hoping you can help me with a more complicated task. There is a government site called Edgar that has accounting statements on it. I want to be able to automate the process of visiting those pages and download all the pages for a firm. PERL seems ideally suited for the task. If anyone could point me in the direction of existing (or help me write) code that could:

1. Get the table from a page like this one into an array.
http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0000051143&owner=include&count=40

2. At the bottom of the page, where there is a button for the next page, to go there (and any other nexts) and put that table in the array as well.

Thanks, Anthony

In reply to Making an array from a downloaded web page by malomar66

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