Re: [MacPerl] How To Book

[cetasix@pop.erols.com]

parseHtml.pl essentially parses through HTML grabbing tags. Later chapters
of the book shows you how to access all the tags in HTML pages and grab the
name/value pairs. Trying the -w switch doesn't work too well. I agree it's
convoluted, but it is how the book teaches it. I have found that book to be
confusing at times and easy at other times. It a troubleshooter's dream.

alan :)

At 1:40 PM -0400 6/22/99, Richard Gordon wrote:
>At 07:57 -0500 6/22/1999, ken towry wrote:
>>Thanks Alan,
>>I'll play with your to die for lines and see if I can get it working.
>>I went through one book with out any hitches but ran into problems right
>>out of the box with this book and can't even get going till I get this
>>solved so I really appreciate your help!
>
>I've never seen the book that you are wrestling with, but am somewhat
>curious about what these scripts are supposed to be doing. There seems to
>be a little bit of everything going on in them and it's hard to imagine
>why you would have to work that hard just to parse some form data and then
>do something with it. If you have a moment to outline the author's
>explanation of what the object of this is, I suspect that somebody here
>could point you at a much less convoluted way of going about it.
>
>Also, be sure to use the -w switch (e.g. #!/usr/bin/perl -w) and to run a
>syntax check in MacPerl before you try to get this stuff to run on the
>server. Checking the code you originally posted for parsehtm.pl generated
>2 syntax errors so that's not going to run under any circumstances until
>those are fixed.
>
>BTW, Eudora is picking up whatever font you are using as Hell's
>Programmer. If you wouldn't mind switching to something a little more
>email-ish, I'd appreciate it.  :-]
>
>
>Richard Gordon
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