There is no built-in HTML parser (yet), but some very good ones are available, in particular Nokogiri. Meta-answer: For common needs like these, I’d recommend checking out the Ruby Toolbox site. You’ll notice that Nokogiri is the top recommendation for HTML parsers
From the documentation: $p = HTML::Parser->new(api_version => 3, text_h => [ sub {…}, “dtext” ]); This creates a new parser object with a text event handler subroutine that receives the original text with general entities decoded. Edit: use HTML::Parser; use LWP::Simple; my $html = get “http://perltraining.stonehenge.com”; HTML::Parser->new(text_h => [\my @accum, “text”])->parse($html); print map $_->[0], @accum; … Read more
include(‘simple_html_dom.php’); $html = file_get_html(‘table.html’); $ret = $html->find(‘.ctable’,0); $name =$ret->children(1)->children(0)->plaintext ; $email =$ret->children(1)->children(1)->plaintext ; $address =$ret->children(19)->children(2)->plaintext ; this might work