in reply to Reading from large files

this looks like enough info for now, ill let you know how it goes.

for those interested in the file to be parsed goto: here

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Re^2: Reading from large files
by GrandFather (Saint) on Mar 21, 2006 at 04:34 UTC

    Well why didn't you say that in the first place! Use HTML::Parser or HTML::TreeBuilder to pull appart stuff like that! Parsing HTML using regexen is a bad, bad, bad idea and you will have an unhappy life.


    DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel
      lol ya but this is why i love perl... there are a million ways to kill a cat and a million more ways to skin it...
      i think ive just about got it. ill fill you all in with my stupidity when im done

        Hey, what's all this about murder and mutilation? No one eats cats nor wears cat fur (except for the cat) - so leave the poor thing alone. Schroedinger's caused enough trouble with this ;-).