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Re: Access a LEGO set DB with your phone!
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Mon, 18 Mar 2002 02:31:04 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Christopher L. Weeks wrote:
> > > http://guide.lugnet.com/set/list/bynumber.txt
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> So I've figured out what I want to happen with this data source. Now,
> if only I were a programmer! I've spent the last eight hours trying to
> learn enough perl to massage the data into a multidimensional array,
> but I think I'm giving up, for the day at least. I can't find a
> reference, tutorial, or FAQ that describes more than the basic
> concepts of References without completely unintelligable techspeak. If
> anyone has a source, I'd love to read it.
ahhh, you said the magic word (perl) :) If you could explain to me
exactly what you need, I'll give ya a script that will do it :)
> Also, what tool should I be using the parse that web page? I can't
> seem to get the right expression to make split break it down by the
> fields apparent in the table. Am I missing something simple?
you could use perl for that too, except that why load the server more
then you need to? get the list file, parse that, and you have the whole
Guide in one request, instead of a request for each set...
Let me know if I can help,
:)
Dan
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| (...) Well, I've discarded the first part...the explanatory text up through the big ________. Then I've read the rest of the file into an array where each item in the array is one line. So now I'm trying to split() the @array[items] by column, (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) I were a programmer! I've spent the last eight hours trying to learn enough perl to massage the data into a multidimensional array, but I think I'm giving up, for the day at least. I can't find a reference, tutorial, or FAQ that describes more (...) (23 years ago, 17-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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