Parsing HTML Tables

[FinnMan]

I'm working with some web pages that contain a lot of tables. Apart from writing some extensive regex, does anybody know of any tools or scripts out there for use with parsing tables from web pages. Perl has a module for it but it's not really up my alley so to speak.

Thx,
FM

 

[PHV]

Perhaps lynx ?

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[futurelet]

I have a small awk program that will do simple parsing of tables; it won't handle tables within tables.

 

[FinnMan]

I can't believe I racked my brain on this. Lynx was the solution. I used the -dump option. The end result is I get one nice long page instead of the double column page that existed. This makes it much easier to strip and parse.

On a side note, I did discover html2text. It's a wonderful utility although the formatting was not in a manner that useful for parsing tables.

./FM