text parsing question

Stephen Barncard stephenREVOLUTION at barncard.com
Fri Jun 9 17:09:32 EDT 2006


Let the games begin!!

I know how <I> would do this - use offset(  to find the words 'left:' 
'top:' 'width:' 'height:'  and then read char by char until I hit a 
p. Then I would have a start and end char to add to a line.

'<img src=' - whatever word follows this is the quoted file path - 
strip quotes.

This would all depend what constitutes a line and other delimiters.

Would a 'line' be everything between <div> tags?

I would preprocess the html first before trying to get the numbers.

I'm sure my crude attempt could not beat a cool Regex solution.

>You have a series of lines, like this:
>
>
><div id="go" style="position:absolute; left:468px; 
>top:43px;width:112px; height:110px;z-index:1; 
>visibility:visible"><img src="images/go.png" width="112" 
>height="110" border="0"></div>
>
>
>All you want out of this line is:
>
>468 43 112 110 images/go.png
>
>What is the cool way to write a function to extract these strings?

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