in reply to extract data from website

Why scrape when you can simply download it?

(If you happen to want to extract it anyway, unpack will help you with fixed width data).

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Re^2: extract data from website
by CountZero (Bishop) on Sep 01, 2008 at 12:13 UTC
    Good idea, but I cannot seem to get the FTP-site working through FireFox.

    CountZero

    A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

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      It responds a bit slow for me, but works fine both with firefox and wget.

      Maybe your settings for anonymous ftp login are incompatible with that site?

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        I always get some kind of a time-out error. Maybe the settings of my FireFox are a bit "nervous". I will put my browser on a diet of "Zen"-websites.

        CountZero

        A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

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