O wise monks:
Noob (me) wants to extract a sports schedule from a website. Here's my code:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;
use HTML::TokeParser;
my $url = 'http://www.georgiastatesports.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_I
+D=12700&SPID=5671&SPSID=53628';
my $raw = get($url);
my $stream = HTML::TokeParser->new(\$raw)
or die "$url $!";
while(my $token = $stream->get_token() ) {
my $ttype = shift @{ $token };
if ($ttype eq "S") {
my($tag, $attr, $attrseq, $rawtxt) = @{ $token };
next until ($tag eq "table");
my $class = $attr->{'class'};
if ($class eq "ScheduleTable") {
my $sched = $stream->get_trimmed_text("/$tag");
print "$sched\n";
} # class eq "ScheduleTable"
} # $ttype eq "S"
} # while
What I hoped to return:
Date Opponent Location Time (ET) Results Overall CAA Media
Thu, Aug 30 South Carolina State Georgia Dome 7:30 PM
Sat, Sep 08 Tennessee at Knoxville, Tenn. 4:00 PM PPV
Sat, Sep 15 UTSA Georgia Dome 6:00 PM
Sat, Sep 22 Richmond * Georgia Dome 3:30 PM
Sat, Sep 29 William & Mary * at Williamsburg, Va. 7:00 PM CSS-TV
Sat, Oct 06 New Hampshire * Georgia Dome 3:30 PM
Sat, Oct 13 Rhode Island * at Kingston, R.I. 1:00 PM
Sat, Oct 20 Villanova (Homecoming) * Georgia Dome 3:30 PM
Sat, Oct 27 James Madison * at Harrisonburg, Va. 3:30 PM
Sat, Nov 03 Old Dominion * Georgia Dome 3:30 PM
Sat, Nov 10 Maine * at Orono, Maine 2:00 PM
What I got:
Use of uninitialized value $class in string eq at ./gsu2.pl line 18.
Use of uninitialized value $class in string eq at ./gsu2.pl line 18.
Use of uninitialized value $class in string eq at ./gsu2.pl line 18.
Use of uninitialized value $class in string eq at ./gsu2.pl line 18.
Use of uninitialized value $class in string eq at ./gsu2.pl line 18.
Date Opponent Location Time (ET) Results Overall CAA Media ? Thu, Aug
+30 ?South Carolina State Georgia Dome ? 7:30 PM ? Sat, Sep 08 ?Tennes
+see at Knoxville, Tenn. ? 4:00 PM PPV ? Sat, Sep 15 ?UTSA Georgia Dom
+e ? 6:00 PM ? Sat, Sep 22 ?Richmond * Georgia Dome ? 3:30 PM ? Sat, S
+ep 29 ?William & Mary * at Williamsburg, Va. ? 7:00 PM CSS-TV ? Sat,
+Oct 06 ?New Hampshire * Georgia Dome ? 3:30 PM ? Sat, Oct 13 ?Rhode I
+sland * at Kingston, R.I. ? 1:00 PM ? Sat, Oct 20 ?Villanova (Homecom
+ing) * Georgia Dome ? 3:30 PM ? Sat, Oct 27 ?James Madison * at Harri
+sonburg, Va. ? 3:30 PM ? Sat, Nov 03 ?Old Dominion * Georgia Dome ? 3
+:30 PM ? Sat, Nov 10 ?Maine * at Orono, Maine ? 2:00 PM
Use of uninitialized value $class in string eq at ./gsu2.pl line 18.
Use of uninitialized value $class in string eq at ./gsu2.pl line 18.
Use of uninitialized value $class in string eq at ./gsu2.pl line 18.
Use of uninitialized value $class in string eq at ./gsu2.pl line 18.
A hexdump where the newlines should be shows a character sequence of \0x20\0xA0\0x20. I tried
local $/ = \0xA0;
between get_trimmed_text() and print, without any apparent effect.
How would I get newlines before each date and handle the "uninitialized" warnings? I await your wisdom.
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