> I have a PHP vs. Perl question for a hobby project of mine. Hobby not homework right? :)
> Which would be the better language to use if I wanted to go > out to a particular web page and parse the table that's Don't know how you'd do it with PHP but with perl you could use LWP and HTML::Parser. Go to search.cpan.org and have a look. You may also want to look at the CGI module which is very helpful for web programming. > there? How about if each row in the HTML table contains a > link to another Web page which has information I want to > grab? (BTW, the page I'm thinking of is the Catalog of > Extrasolar Planets by Jean Schneider, at > http://www.obspm.fr/encycl/catalog.html.) Cool page!! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
