Newbie..Needs Help

[Nick Vatamaniuc]

Your description is too general. The way to 'collect the results'
depends largely in what format the results are. If they are in an html
table you will have to parse the html data if they are in a simple
plaintext you might use a different method, and if the site renders the
numbers to images and adds some noise and font effects to them, then
you can abandon the idea altogether unless you have a good background
in OCR.

But let's assume that you data is embedded an html sourse. Even so you,
it would largely depend on the specific syntax used. Sometimes you
could  just use regular expressions, other times a full HTML parser
will be needed. Then you could have the issue of 'how to get to the
right page' and/or 'how to uniquely identify and match each of the
previously parsed rows of data to the new set of rows of data that also
have the results added to them?'

Perhaps if you post the website plus a clear and exact description of
what you want to accomplish and what has already been accomplished you
might find someone to help.

-Nick V.





Graham Feeley wrote:
> Hi this is a plea for some help.
> I am enjoying a script that was written for me and its purpose is to collect
> data from a web site and puts it into a access database table.
> It works fine, however it is a sports info table but now I need to collect
> the results of those races.
>
> I simply can't keep up putting the results in manually.
> I dont care if it is a access table or a text file ( whichever is easiest)
> there are only 12 fields to extract
> The person who wrote the script is not available as he is engrossed in
> another project which is talking all his time.
> I hope someone has a little time on his hands willing to help me
> Regards
> Graham