Hey Now, just a little question. Ok I understand regular expressions and all but what I am looking to do is to parse HTML. Sounds simple enough. Heres and example of what I want to do: Say there is a static webpage with some HTML that looks like this 
<p><b>Location:</b>

Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Egypt and Tu
+nisia

<p><b>Geographic coordinates:</b>

25 00 N, 17 00 E

<p><b>Map references:</b>

Africa

<p><b>Area:</b>

<br><i>total:</i>

1,759,540 sq km

<br><i>land:</i>

1,759,540 sq km

<br><i>water:</i>

0 sq km

<p><b>Area - comparative:</b>

slightly larger than Alaska

<p><b>Land boundaries:</b>

<br><i>total:</i>

4,383 km

<br><i>border countries:</i>

Algeria 982 km, Chad 1,055 km, Egypt 1,150 km, Niger 354 km, Sudan 383
+ km, Tunisia 459 km

<p><b>Coastline:</b>

1,770 km

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how would I parse this to enter into a database so that under Location would go the appropiate data and so on. And also how would you best recive the HTML, say from http://www.foobar.com/poopy/data.html how would I best get the HTML and then parse it into a database. Thank you if you can help out at all

In reply to So Simple, Yet no tutorial covers it by Jrchak

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