I need to convert an HTML file to a tab delimited or CSV file. Can someone
who has done this give me some pointers please.
It would be helpful if you would give a more descriptive problem
statement. What kind of conversion are you looking for? As in, what are
the fields of the CSV file, and where do they come from? Are you trying
to tokenize the HTML document so that every tag is a field? Are you
trying to parse it so that every pair of open-close tags will contain the
included tags as fields?
My *guess* is that you are trying to copy an HTML table's data into a CSV
file. This is only a guess of course, because you haven't been explicit
in what you want to do. For this task, I would recommend you look at the
following modules, available from search.cpan.org:
Text::CSV_XS
HTML::TableExtract
Read the documentations for those, and make an attempt. If you run into
problems, let us know.
Paul Lalli
