Hi,
I haven't posted on the forums for a while now, I tried to find the most appropriate section for this post, but if this is in the wrong section please forgive me.
First, let me say I'm a sophomore in HS. I know that job wise I definitely want to do something in computers. A while ago I was... (5 Replies)
I am now a student in university in 2nd year. I am studying computer science. But I am not sure what type of jobs computer science provide. I know some of them are software programming or network management. Recently, I hear some about Web Development. I wonder if it is a part of computer science.... (1 Reply)
I am now a student in university in 2nd year. I am studying computer science. But I am not sure what type of jobs computer science provide. I know some of them are software programming or network management. Recently, I hear some about Web Development. I wonder if it is a part of computer... (3 Replies)
I have added a new experimental "Computer Science and Mathematics Trivia - True or False" section in the discussions, currently under the tags box.
In the future, I plan to
Expand this feature to add more trivia categories from math, science and technology.
Keep track of correct and... (20 Replies)
The UNIX and Linux Forums now has over 1000 TRUE / FALSE computer science and computer related trivia question in our database. These questions are of relatively high quality (compared to similar sites on the web) and are fun (according to feedback by users). In the first week during the... (1 Reply)
Thanks to Akshay, who helped me write the core MySQL queries, we now have two new draft leaderboards, by (1) member and by (2) country:
https://www.unix.com/trivia_stats.php
Currently milhan leads the members with a high score of 90%:
... (3 Replies)
Just noticed that our successful computer trivia feature (stats here) has surpassed over 50,000 questions answered by users:
https://www.unix.com/trivia_stats.php
This was a coding effort worth while and I'm pleased to see so many people enjoying it in such a short time since it was released... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Neo
3 Replies
LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
webservice::cia::parser
WebService::CIA::Parser(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation WebService::CIA::Parser(3pm)NAME
WebService::CIA::Parser - Parse pages from the CIA World Factbook
SYNOPSIS
use WebService::CIA::Parser;
my $parser = WebService::CIA::Parser->new;
my $data = $parser->parse($string);
DESCRIPTION
WebService::CIA::Parser takes a string of HTML and parses it. It will only give sensible output if the string is the HTML for a page whose
URL matches "https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/[a-z]{2}.html"
This parsing is somewhat fragile, since it assumes a certain page structure. It'll work just as long as the CIA don't choose to alter
their pages.
METHODS
"new"
Creates a new WebService::CIA::Parser object. It takes no arguments.
"parse($html)"
Parses a string of HTML take from the CIA World Factbook. It takes a single string as its argument and returns a hashref of fields and
values.
The values are stripped of all HTML. "<br>" tags are replaced by newlines.
It also creates four extra fields: "URL", "URL - Print", "URL - Flag", and "URL - Map" which are the URLs of the country's Factbook
page, the printable version of that page, a GIF map of the country, and a GIF flag of the country respectively.
EXAMPLE
use WebService::CIA::Parser;
use LWP::Simple qw(get);
$html = get(
"https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/uk.html"
);
$parser = WebService::CIA::Parser->new;
$data = $parser->parse($html);
print $data->{"Population"};
AUTHOR
Ian Malpass (ian-cpan@indecorous.com)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2003-2007, Ian Malpass
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
The CIA World Factbook's copyright information page (<https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/docs/contributor_copy-
right.html>) states:
The Factbook is in the public domain. Accordingly, it may be copied
freely without permission of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
SEE ALSO
WebService::CIA
perl v5.8.8 2008-02-04 WebService::CIA::Parser(3pm)