Cyril Gupta said:
Hello Jim,
Those of us who choose to help others on the newsgroup do it not because
we are paid but out of a desire to help fellow coders and maybe because
other coders help us. It's a chain.
I've probably asnwered more cries for help in ngs than you've ever read. I
am familiar with the concept.
Your attitude leaves a lot to be desired. Your question is un-specific,
about a very broad topic, and you have not presented a particular
programming problem.
Really? What exactly would you call "I want to extract data from several
websites that I visit daily. I'd like
to condense the info into a single web page that I can visit (instead of the
multiple websites I have to visit now to get the same info)." ?
Do you think that the exact websites or page info would alter the answer
given? If so, you don't understand the question.
You want an answer that will give you the complete overview of the solution
without making any effort from your side to write code or evolve a strategy
to solve the problem.
Did Sylvia Brown tell you this, or are you a budding psychic yourself?
Either way, you missed with that assumption completely. I was actively
working on the solution before I made the post and continued to do so
afterwards.
But, let's assume (since you evidentally like to do that) that your
assumption was right. Programmers, like myself, give away code snippets to
others to save them time and effort and as a tool that they can learn from.
We even have entire sites dedicated to the task.
Ever hear of Planet Source Code or The Code Project or SourceForge? Perhaps
you should log on to those sites and tell the users how lazy they all are.
(PLEASE let me know if you do......I wouldn't miss it for the world!)
What if Microsoft put out the .Net 2.0 framework with your "you try and
figure it out" attitude? You'd just have to figure out how the entire .Net
2.0 framework works. And you'd probably be just as productive as your post
to this thread.
Even a very basic search could tell you that you can retrieve the data of
a webpage using the HttpWebRequest object, and from then on it's a
question of logic.
Well, duh. I acknowledged that Google gives simplistic examples (like the
one you suggest) that gets the whole page. What I wanted to know (and if
you'd read the OP, you'd know this) was the most efficient way to extract
data from the page.
I don't think you should be so rude on the newsgroup to people who care to
answer, or maybe after a while nobody will care to answer.
And I don't think that you should appoint yourself the NG-Police. So?
Neither of us cares what the other thinks so why are you wasting even more
bandwidth with your tripe?
If my scolding posters for posting irrelevant, "Google it" posts, or tripe
like you have posted, means that people with no answer (like yourself)
ignore my posts, GREAT! I'm sure others will appreciate your NOT posting
irrelevant material to my threads almost as much a I will.
Have a nice life! And I hope that people post more relevant responses to
your requests than you have to mine.
Jim
