HTML Parse Help

Agyeya has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have a calendar, in which the days are marked with either one of the three colours(Red,Blue and Black). All colours mean different things.
Now I want to store in a MySql databse, the status of the different days, like

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|Date      |Status|
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2004-05-07 |Red   |
2004-05-08 |Blue  |
.          |      |
.
.
2004-07-02 |Black |
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I am using WWW::Mechanize

a sample of the tags are:


<td align="Center" width="14%">
  <font face="Verdana" color="Black" size="1">3</font>
</td>

<td align="Center" width="14%">
  <font face="Verdana" color="Blue" size="1">4</font>
</td>

<td align="Center" width="14%">
  <font face="Verdana" color="Red" size="1">5</font>
</td>
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Update
How do I locate all the tags of the above pattern, and then obtain the color and also the date.
Please Respond, Urgent

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Re: HTML Parse Help by davis (Vicar) on May 07, 2004 at 10:11 UTC
And??? What's your question? I'm going to make an assumption - you want some help extracting that information so that you can store it in your database. You say you have a calendar -- do you have access to the storage mechanism used by that calendar? Chances are it's already stored in some sort of database, and if you've got access, it shouldn't be hard to translate from one schema to another, neatly bypassing the HTML parsing. If you don't have access to the storage, then I don't believe the HTML snippet you gave is complete enough to allow any non ESP-endowed monk to do anything other than guess at solutions. davis It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.	[reply]
Re: Re: HTML Parse help by Agyeya (Hermit) on May 08, 2004 at 05:06 UTC
~~Davido~~OOPS!! davis if you wish i can provide you with the link to that site. so that you can check it out for yourself. It would be diificult to explain the matter otherwise.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: HTML Parse help by davis (Vicar) on May 08, 2004 at 12:56 UTC
if you wish i can provide you with the link to that site Well, you could do that. I recommend posting a link that everyMonk can see, along with the code that you've tried already. You're much more likely to get help by saying "Here's what I've tried, but I can't make it work, possibly because of..." than by asking "Here's what I want, will you build it for me?" Cheers davis It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.	[reply]


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