best approach to extracting data from a page

[stephen j ryan]

hi everyone

i am using nettalk to download web pages

on those pages are table and column data

is there a way to access these columns and rows using string theory? or any other approach

we have a big bulky parser but its not ideal for this type of job.

many thanks
steve

[Rene Simons]

Hi Stephen,

StringTheory is probably the best option here.

Cheers,
Rene

[Bruce]

yeah, I've done thins with StringTheory on some pages, splitting first on <tr> and then on <td> and so on.
then removing all tags using the Replace method.

cheers
Bruce

[rjolda]

Hi Steve,
We use XFiles to manage table data from some web pages with a known structure.
Works like a charm!  It is then easy to manipulate the Xfile data!
FWIW,
Ron Jolda