On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 08:30 -0800, Collaborate wrote: > I am wondering if there is a way to copy a webpage to a text file > using Perl. All I need is to copy as unformatted text. > > I would like to match certain strings on pages written in javascript > and to my understanding, www::mechnize does not work for this > application. >
WWW::Mechanize uses a number of other modules to help do its work. One of them, HTML::TreeBuilder contains another HTML::Element which has a method as_text(). This can extract the unformatted text from any element. Use the methods in HTML::TreeBuilder to isolate the element you're interested in and call as_text() on it. See: perldoc WWW::Mechanize perldoc HTML::TreeBuilder perldoc HTML::Element -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Believe in the Gods but row away from the rocks. -- ancient Hindu proverb -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
