I have a behemoth of a task to do, I.e. taking a collection of HTML files, parsing specific information out of them, modifying them to add some of this new improved data and saving them back out again, before finally changing the last modified date.

Erk.

My approach here at first was to use a behemoth of a regular expression (so I can do things like getting the contents of the cell after the one that says "Date" in it); But I was sat there thinking, shouldn't HTML::Parser offer a nicer approach? But can I find any example code? Can I heck... Plenty of references saying stuff like "use HTML::Parser" but that's just as helpful to go and sit in the corner and make chicken noises for an hour...

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RatArsed

In reply to HTML::Parser example wanted... by RatArsed

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