sample code for parsing html file to get contents of td fields

[William Park]

yaffa <yxxxxlxxxxx at gmail.com> wrote:
> does anyone have sample code for parsting an html file to get contents
> of a td field to write to a mysql db?  even if you have everything but
> the mysql db part ill take it.

I usually use Expat XML parser to extract the field.
    http://home.eol.ca/~parkw/index.html#expat

Expat is everywhere.  Python has it and even Gawk has it.

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