hello all

many thanks to you! I did as you adviced me! And now i was successful! i changed from

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
use File::Find::Rule;
my @files = File::Find::Rule->file()
                 ->name('einzelergebnis*.html')
                 ->in( '/home/usr/perl/htmlfiles' );
foreach my $file(@files) {
        print $file, "\n";

}
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to this

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
use File::Find::Rule;
my @files = File::Find::Rule->file()
                 ->name('einzelergebnis*.html')
                 ->in( '.' );
foreach my $file(@files) {
        print $file, "\n";

}
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and then i got the following output:

htmlfiles/einzelergebnis80b5.html<br>
htmlfiles/einzelergebnisa0ef.html<br>
htmlfiles/einzelergebnis1b42.html<br>
htmlfiles/einzelergebnis5960.html<br>
htmlfiles/einzelergebnise523.html<br>
htmlfiles/einzelergebnis2c7e.html<br>
htmlfiles/einzelergebnisdf57.html<br>
htmlfiles/einzelergebnis2b53-2.html<br>
htmlfiles/einzelergebnisb1c0-2.html<br>
htmlfiles/einzelergebnis8e8b.html<br>
htmlfiles/einzelergebnisdcc1.html<br>
htmlfiles/einzelergebnis1dae-2.html<br>
htmlfiles/einzelergebnisa70d.html<br>
htmlfiles/einzelergebnis3cec.html<br>
htmlfiles/einzelergebnis3f1f.html<br>
htmlfiles/einzelergebnis1d2b.html<br>
htmlfiles/einzelergebnis396c.html<br>
htmlfiles/einzelergebnis2592.html<br>
htmlfiles/einzelergebnisdee0.html<br>
htmlfiles/einzelergebnis987b-2.html<br>
htmlfiles/einzelergebnise20b.html<br>
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...and 22 thousand lines further... ;-)

This seems to be the starting point! now i can continue figuring out how i have to configure the script of Keath - see more here URL=http://forums.devshed.com/showpost.php?p=2538358&postcount=12see this link to another thread here in this great forum - with the little script/URL . As this previous thread is very very long i think that it is worth to begin a new one! Note: many many thanks to Keath and Axldrweil for their great and generous help!!! So after having nailed down the I-O handle-issues and the path names in General the parser-script has to be configured.

well this means i have to define the paths in $file the file/directory incl. path and furthermore to define a path in $html_dir
BTW – what does the

 Array @html_files   do
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here the full code or the html-parser:

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

use HTML::TokeParser;

my $file = 'school.html';
my $p = HTML::TokeParser->new($file) or die "Can't open: $!";

my %school;
while (my $tag = $p->get_tag('div', '/html')) {
    # first move to the right div that contains the information
    last if $tag->[0] eq '/html';
    next unless exists $tag->[1]{'id'} and $tag->[1]{'id'} eq 'inhalt_
+large';
    
    $p->get_tag('h1');
    $school{'location'} = $p->get_text('/h1');
    
    while (my $tag = $p->get_tag('div')) {
        last if exists $tag->[1]{'id'} and $tag->[1]{'id'} eq 'fusszei
+le';
        
        # get the school name from the heading
        next unless exists $tag->[1]{'class'} and $tag->[1]{'class'} e
+q 'fm_linkeSpalte';
        $p->get_tag('h2');
        $school{'name'} = $p->get_text('/h2');
        
        # verify format for school type
        $tag = $p->get_tag('span');
        unless (exists $tag->[1]{'class'} and $tag->[1]{'class'} eq 's
+chulart_text') {
            warn "unexpected format: parsing stopped";
            last;
        }
        $school{'type'} = $p->get_text('/span');
        
        # verify format for address
        $tag = $p->get_tag('p');
        unless (exists $tag->[1]{'class'} and $tag->[1]{'class'} eq 'e
+inzel_text') {
            warn "unexpected format: parsing stopped";
            last;
        }
        $school{'address'} = clean_address($p->get_text('/p'));
        
        # find the description
        $tag = $p->get_tag('p');
        $school{'description'} = $p->get_text('/p');
    }
}

print qq/$school{'name'}\n/;
print qq/$school{'location'}\n/;
print qq/$school{'type'}\n/;

foreach (@{$school{'address'}}) {
    print "$_\n";
}

print qq/\nDescription: $school{'description'}\n/;

sub clean_address {
    my $text = shift;
    my @lines = split "\n", $text;
    foreach (@lines) {
        s/^\s+//;
        s/\s+$//;
    }
    return \@lines;
}
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Note: i can provide you with much further information - on what the script does!

i look forward to any and all help! This is a very very great place to share knowlege!! MAny many thanks for this great plac3!
perlbeginner1!