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RE: Fetching data from a HTML file

From	"Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com>
Subject	RE: Fetching data from a HTML file
Date	2012-03-23 15:08 +0000
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> Actually, I'm working on ROBOT Framework, and haven't been able to figure
> out how to read data from HTML tables. Reading from the source, is the best
> (read rudimentary) way I could come up with. Any suggestions are welcome!

> I've got to fetch data from the snippet below and have been trying to match
> the digits in this to specifically to specific groups. But I can't seem to
> figure how to go about stripping the tags! :(

In addition to Simon's response. You may want to look at Beautiful Soup 
which I hear is good at dealing with malformed HTML.
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/



Ramit


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Fetching data from a HTML file Sangeet <mrsangeet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-23 06:52 -0700
  RE: Fetching data from a HTML file "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-03-23 15:08 +0000
  Re: Fetching data from a HTML file Daniel Fetchinson <fetchinson@googlemail.com> - 2012-03-23 16:28 +0100
  Re: Fetching data from a HTML file Jon Clements <joncle@googlemail.com> - 2012-03-23 22:12 -0700
    Re: Fetching data from a HTML file John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2012-03-24 14:04 -0700

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