That's neat Kevin,
I'll experiment with this. I'm hoping it will be useful in allowing
grad students to update references specific research web sites.
Greg
On 24/11/2000 6:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On 23/11/00 1:04 pm, Gregory Lypny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have an example (or can anyone direct me to the relevant
>> help resources) of a MetaCard stack that can access a web site and
>> extract specific information from a web page?
>
>Use the URL commands to download the page, then you can treat the html that
>is returned as text and parse in the normal way. For example:
>
>put URL "http://www.xworlds.com/" into tVar
>set the htmlText of fld 1 to tVar --remove html tags
>ask "Search term?"
>if it is in fld 1 then answer "text found"
>else answer "text not found"
>
>Regards,
>
>Kevin
>
>Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.runrev.com/>
>Runtime Revolution Limited (formerly Cross Worlds Computing).
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