Re: A regex question

See Re: Help With Online Table Scraper, Re: Formating a HTML document to show certain text.

$ lwp-download "http://perlmonks.com/?abspart=1;displaytype=displaycode;node_id=934485;part=1" junk.html 281 bytes received

$ perl htmltreexpather.pl junk.html _tag a

HTML::Element=HASH(0xb31bcc)    0.1.0
John.Martines
/html/body/a
/html/body/a
/html/body/a[@href='page.aspx?a=c4bc46eswsdw32fcc']
------------------------------------------------------------------
HTML::Element=HASH(0xb31d2c)    0.1.1.0.0
Mary Jones
/html/body/ul/li/a
/html/body/ul/li/a
/html/body/ul/li/a[@href='page.aspx?a=0a2b-a99d-3754eb2f5e35']
------------------------------------------------------------------
HTML::Element=HASH(0xb31e0c)    0.1.1.1.0
Fernando Praderas
/html/body/ul/li[2]/a
/html/body/ul/li[2]/a
/html/body/ul/li[2]/a[@href='page.aspx?a=1ef7b100-8dc4-4b40-871c-68b1d
+0']
------------------------------------------------------------------
##################################################################
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HTML::Query

use HTML::Query qw{ Query };
print "$_\n" for Query(
    file => q{junk.html}
)->query(
  q{a[href~=page.aspx]}
)->as_text  ;
__END__
John.Martines
Mary Jones
Fernando Praderas
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Re^2: A regex question
by emelianenko (Initiate) on Oct 28, 2011 at 21:00 UTC

Thank you, very much appreciate, definitively the formatting that i received via wget was something to consider in addition to the rest of the work. And I will study this too. kind regards

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