As some might know I'm working on a script to collect gaming stats for squad members from a website. Now I'm getting close to a working thing (Much thanks to wfsp).

What I'm working on now is adapting a sub that wfsp wrote to collect data from specific spots on a webpage by feeding the sub coordinates my $databit = collect_data(x, y, z); basically.

Guess I'm getting tired and can't see the wood for all the trees now, but I just can't figure out the treebuilder function for my use (found a message here about it but all links were dead).

The code I'm adapting:

sub collect_data {

    my ($tab, $row, $cell) = @_;

    # we want table X
    my @tables = $t->look_down(_tag => q{table});
    my $table = $tables[$tab];

    # Xth row
    my @trs = $table->look_down(_tag => q{tr});
    my $tr = $trs[$row];

    # Xth column
    my @tds = $tr->look_down(_tag => q{td});
    my $td = $tds[$cell];

    # get any text  
    my $data = $td->as_text;

    return $data;

}
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The original sub was to test if a new page existed and was feed a page number ($t) and it returned a new one if it existed. I however feed it the 3 positional variables and expect the data at that location to be feed back.

As you can see the $t is still in there as I'm unsure what the line should be without it. I've also inserted the supplies coordinates where I believe they should go to work as intended.