Hello Monks. I need some advice about parsing HTML code using HTML::TreeBuilder.

I have some HTML code, and I need some info within a table tag. There are, let's say 20 table tags, but the info requires is in table 15.

How do I know that in table 15 is the required info? Well, I just search for the info in notepad with ctrl+F and next I count the table tags from the beginning.

As you can see the process is very tedious.

The question is that HTML::Tree builder inherits a function from HTML::Element to dump the HTML code. The dumped HTML code looks like this:


td class="cuesTableFilterAreaTd"> @0.1.9.0.0.0.0.4.1.9.3
                      <select id="searchField9" name="searchField9" on
+change="getUtilityListValues(this, &quot;PhoneFindListForm&quot;, upd
+ateUtilityList)" size="1"> @0.1.9.0.0.0.0.4.1.9.3.0
                        <option selected value="device.name"> @0.1.9.0
+.0.0.0.4.1.9.3.0.0
                          "Device Name"
                        <option value="device.description"> @0.1.9.0.0
+.0.0.4.1.9.3.0.1
                          "Description"
                        <option value="numplan.dnorpattern"> @0.1.9.0.
+0.0.0.4.1.9.3.0.2
                          "Directory Number"
                        <option value="callingsearchspace.name"> @0.1.
+9.0.0.0.0.4.1.9.3.0.3
                          "Calling Search Space"
                        <option value="devicepool.name"> @0.1.9.0.0.0.
+0.4.1.9.3.0.4
                          "Device Pool"
                        <option value="TypeProduct.name"> @0.1.9.0.0.0
+.0.4.1.9.3.0.5
                          "Device Type"
                        <option value="pickupgroup.name"> @0.1.9.0.0.0
+.0.4.1.9.3.0.6
                          "Call Pickup Group"
                        <option value="TypeCertificateStatus.name"> @0
+.1.9.0.0.0.0.4.1.9.3.0.7
                          "LSC Status"
                        <option value="device.authenticationString"> @
+0.1.9.0.0.0.0.4.1.9.3.0.8
                          "Authentication String"
                        <option value="TypeDeviceProtocol.name"> @0.1.
+9.0.0.0.0.4.1.9.3.0.9
                          "Device Protocol"
                        <option value="securityprofile.name"> @0.1.9.0
+.0.0.0.4.1.9.3.0.10
                          "Security Profile"
                        <option value="commondeviceconfig.name"> @0.1.
+9.0.0.0.0.4.1.9.3.0.11
                          "Common Device Configuration"
                    <td class="cuesTableFilterAreaTd"> @0.1.9.0.0.0.0.
+4.1.9.4
                      <select id="searchLimit9" name="searchLimit9" si
+ze="1"> @0.1.9.0.0.0.0.4.1.9.4.0
                        <option selected value="beginsWith"> @0.1.9.0.
+0.0.0.4.1.9.4.0.0
                          "begins with"
                        <option value="contains"> @0.1.9.0.0.0.0.4.1.9
+.4.0.1
                          "contains"
                        <option value="endsWith"> @0.1.9.0.0.0.0.4.1.9
+.4.0.2
                          "ends with"
                        <option value="isExactly"> @0.1.9.0.0.0.0.4.1.
+9.4.0.3
                          "is exactly"
                        <option value="isEmpty"> @0.1.9.0.0.0.0.4.1.9.
+4.0.4
                          "is empty"
                        <option value="isNotEmpty"> @0.1.9.0.0.0.0.4.1
+.9.4.0.5
                          "is not empty"
                    <td class="cuesTableFilterAreaTd"> @0.1.9.0.0.0.0.
+4.1.9.5
                      <input id="searchString9" name="searchString9" o
+nkeypress="javascript:onEnterKey(event)" type="text" value="" /> @0.1
+.9.0.0.0.0.4.1.9.5.0
                    <td class="cuesTableFilterAreaTd"> @0.1.9.0.0.0.0.
+4.1.9.6
                    <td class="cuesTableFilterAreaTd"> @0.1.9.0.0.0.0.
+4.1.9.7
                    <td class="cuesTableFilterAreaTd"> @0.1.9.0.0.0.0.
+4.1.9.8
                    <td class="cuesTableFilterAreaTd"> @0.1.9.0.0.0.0.
+4.1.9.9
                    <td class="cuesTableFilterAreaTd"> @0.1.9.0.0.0.0.
+4.1.9.10

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You can see that for each line there is this: "@0.1.9.0.0.0.0.4.1.9.10" or something. This tell you the position of the line in the tree.

So the question is, do you know a way to tell the module, hey I want to work from @0.1.9.0.0.0.0.4.1.9.10, or another way to make the process I described simpler?

Thanks very much!

In reply to Parse HTML using HTML::TreeBuilder by oldwarrior32

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