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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Retrieve information Text/Word from HTML code using awk/sed Post 302897219 by Corona688 on Friday 11th of April 2014 05:43:07 PM
Old 04-11-2014
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Originally Posted by sk2code
I Just ran this but it is giving me no output. Just blank lines. This HTML file is having 5 lines and when I run the command you mentioned I am just getting 5 blank lines.
Does the HTML actually look like the data you pasted, or did you pretty it up? Many times when XML/HTML comes up, 5 "lines" is later found to mean tags not necessarily organized into lines at all.
 

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WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller::Value::Random::Word(3pm)	User Contributed Perl Documentation   WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller::Value::Random::Word(3pm)

NAME
WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller::Value::Random::Word - Fill a word into an HTML form field SYNOPSIS
use WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller; use WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller::Value::Random::Word; my $f = WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller->new(); # Create a random value for the HTML field "login" my $login = WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller::Value::Random::Word->new( login => size => 1 ); $f->add_value( login => $login ); # Alternatively take the following shorthand, which adds the # field to the list as well : # If there is no password, put a random one out of the list there my $password = $f->add_filler( password => Random::Word => size => 1 ); # Spew some bogus text into the comments field my $comments = $f->add_filler( comments => Random::Word => size => 10 ); DESCRIPTION
This class provides a way to write a randomly chosen value into a HTML field. new NAME, LIST Creates a new value which will correspond to the HTML field "NAME". The "LIST" is the list of arguments passed to Data::Random::rand_words. If the list is empty, "size => 1" is assumed. name [NEWNAME] Gets and sets the name of the HTML field this value corresponds to. value FIELD Returns the value to put into the HTML field. EXPORT None by default. COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Copyright (C) 2002,2003 Max Maischein AUTHOR
Max Maischein, <corion@cpan.org> Please contact me if you find bugs or otherwise improve the module. More tests are also very welcome ! SEE ALSO
Data::Random, WWW::Mechanize, WWW::Mechanize::Shell, WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller, WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller::Value::Value, WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller::Value::Default, WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller::Value::Fixed, WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller::Value::Interactive perl v5.10.1 2009-04-24 WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller::Value::Random::Word(3pm)
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