Your Mother and bart told me to write this up during a conversation in the Chatterbox after talking about getting data manually out of HTML files. I have looked at a lot of HTML parsers out there, but I can't seem to get a grip on how they work. I would like to parse these files into a csv file and separate description files.

Note: get_data_file is a home rolled subroutine I wrote to make it easier for me to get files from my data directory.

I can start the script easily enough...

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use File::Find;

my @files;
sub wanted {
  push @files, $_;
}
find(\&wanted,C:/Documents and Settings/ME/My Documents/fantasy/Role_p
+laying/Magic_items/Spell_scrolls);

for $file (@files) {
}

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The lines in the csv would be...

open(my $spell_csv, '>>', get_data_file('Role_playing','Spell_list.csv
+'));
print $spell_csv "$spell_name|$school|$level|$range|$duration|$area_of
+_effect|$components|$casting_time|$saving_throw|$note";
push @spell_list, $spell_name;

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For the description below all of that, the text with all of the html included would be written into a separate .txt file for each spell. If there are any lines in the description that begin with the word Note, put the note in the .csv file.

open(my $spell_description, '>', get_data_file('Role_playing/Spell_des
+criptions',"$spell_name.txt"));
print $spell_description $description;

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After that is all created, get the name of the original file and create a .pl file with the same name in the same directory.

my $html_file = basename($0);
my $pl_file   = $html_file;
   $pl_file   =~ s!html$!pl!;

open(my $new_pl_file, '>', $pl_file);
print $new_pl_file q{#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use lib "C:/Documents and Settings/ME/My Documents/fantasy/files/perl/
+lib";
use RolePlaying::SpellList qw(print_spell_scroll);

print_spell_scroll(}

.join(',',@spell_list).

q{);};

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Once the files are parsed and the new perl files created, delete the html files.

Have a cookie and a very nice day!
Lady Aleena

In reply to Parsing HTML into various files by Lady_Aleena

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