thanks Chas. regex worked fine in my case. But my question was: how to specifically sift out a particular line number. Also, while using LWP modules, what type of data is $content = get($url)? Is it an array? Is there a way to find out what kind of data a particular variable stores?
thanks raghu On 9/14/07, Chas Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am looking for one particular line in an HTML page. How can I find > > this in a perl program. > > > > Basically, I want to grep this one line containing what I know. > snip > > A lot depends on how you can identify that line. The best solution is > to use an HTML parser to create a Perl data structure you can walk > through to find your data; however, if you have distinct enough > anchors you can often easily grab the data with a regex (but this > solution tends to be fragile). Without more information about your > data we can't provide much more help. > -- There's a whole lot of difference between what one can do, what one thinks one can do and what one does.
