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Another Beginner question (sub extractions)

Hi,

First off i would like to thank you for looking at this post. I have alittle problem and wondering if anyone can lend a helping hand.

the problem is best described in an example so heres go.

I look at a site that has a dvd on it. It has the name of the dvd and the price (or says it is out of stock). now i want to create a session that will rip the name of the dvd off and will rip the price OR the comment "out of stock" whatever is their.

i emphasie the Or as im writing the software in HTML (java) idealy i would like these two to run as sub extractors but can't figure it out

Now the problem is their are 100 dvd's on this page and for ease of saving to a txt file a want the software to work as follows..

Everytime i rip a name of a dvd it will then go and rip the price or the comment for that dvd before moving on to the next dvd.

The now the software ripps all dvd names then moves on to all the dvd prices etc..

Any help would be appreactiated

Thanks for reading.

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nooby_boy on 06/20/2006 at 9:53 am

Another Beginner question (sub extractions)

Hi,

Did you mean?

instead of

Also, could you post the full HTML snippet? What you have isn't actually valid HTML. If you could post the full block of HTML I'd be happy to offer a suggestion. I'm not entirely sure what you're after based on the portion you've included.

Thanks,

Todd

 todd on 06/21/2006 at 12:52 pm

Another Beginner question (sub extractions)

Hi

Thanks for the reply. Yes i went through all the tutorials which were very usefull. I managed to discover my error and most of it is now working however i have one little problem i was hoping you could advise me on.

Another example

href=123456..//1200
href=123456..//1300
href=123456..//1400
href=123456..//1500
href=123456..//1600


i want to extract the numbers that link off to another html page however but due to the
i can't get the first line to work is their anyway i can use an ignore command or similar to deal with this?

this was only a small example their are lots more tables that all have the same problem so i missing alot of data when im scraping.

Thanks for reading

 nooby_boy on 06/21/2006 at 8:07 am

Another Beginner question (sub extractions)

Hi,

This sounds quite a bit like our third tutorial: here. Did you already go through that? If so, did it help? Or could you provide more specific questions?

Thanks much,

Todd Wilson

 todd on 06/20/2006 at 10:33 pm