Yeah, what's the page format look like? You can parse as XML easily in CF or use a RE if there is a discernable pattern.
-----Original Message----- From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 4:09 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: need a suggestion Dana, I think the problem is that we're having a hard time envisioning it. Can you post a snippet of the html? That would give us a better idea of what you're wanting to do. If that's not possible, all I can say is that I use ruby regularly to parse through xml/html files and grab just the data I need. Something may be possible in CF that's similar. The process I use is to grab the html file (and equivalent cfhttp) and then parse the document as an xml file (a stronger version of xmlparse). Then you can use xpath expressions to get at the data. On 4/29/07, Dana Tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok ;) I can see I am not going to get a serious answer to the question so let me rephrase it. I am thinking unix scripting + regular expressions. Anyone have a better idea? > > Any proposed solution must start from the HTML file. Yes, the Oracle guy could solve it. But the Oracle guy isn't going to, not in time for when I need this data. Yes, this is an organizational issue. But it is not currently solvable by me, and perhaps not by my boss, though she is working on this. > > My alternative is to cut and paste and I fervently do not want to so that a few thousand times. That's *my* motivation for solving this. > > Dana > > >> -----Original Message----- > > > >A baseball bat to the base of the skull works wonders. > > > >Jim Davis > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:233500 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
