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Things that perl was designed for...extracting text from other text. The Mechanize library helps.
by mynameishere 19y ago
Things that perl was designed for...extracting text from other text. The Mechanize library helps.
- Tichy 19y agoI googled for it, but I only found a "Mechanize" library for Ruby. What does it do? I actually like the way regular expressions are being handled in Java. The only problem is that "\" has to be escaped in Java Strings, so the regex patterns tend to have a lot of slashes.
- mynameishere 19y agohttp://www.google.com/search?q=Mechanize+perl http://www.google.com/search?q=Mechanize+perl Screen scraping. I don't have any major problems with Java--it's just that it lends itself to serious over-engineering. Maybe that has more to do with business culture.