[erlang-questions] parsing text

[Michael McDaniel]

 if I am understanding correctly what you want to do,
 how about something like ...

 X = <<"<B>Page Counter</B></TD><TD>4880</TD></TR>">> ,
 {match, [Val]} = re:run(X, ".*</td><td>(?<VAL>.*)</td>.*", [caseless,{capture,['VAL'],list}]) ...


 presuming your string is a constant format

~Michael

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:39:38PM -0600, Wes James wrote:
> I have a function grabbing a page and I'm pulling text out of the
> result.  I can get the line:
> 
> lists:nth(424,B).
> <<"<B>Page Counter</B></TD><TD>4880</TD></TR>">>
> 
> 
> but 4880 will eventually get to 10000, etc.
> 
> I can do
> 
> string:substr(binary_to_list(lists:nth(424,B)), 34, 4).
> 
> to get the 4880 out, but to do a check for > 9999 would I grab
> position 34 + the rest of the text then test positions after that for
> int?
> 
> or maybe something like this?
> 
> 
> A=string:substr(binary_to_list(lists:nth(424,B)), 34, 6)
> B=string:substr(binary_to_list(lists:nth(424,B)), 34, 5)
> C=string:substr(binary_to_list(lists:nth(424,B)), 34, 4)
> case
>     is_integer(A) -> A;
>     is_integer(B) -> B;
>     is_integer(C) -> C;
> end.
> 
> 
> Hmm - A, B, and C will be strings though so is_integer won't work.  If
> I do list_to_integer(A), I guess I can write something like this:
> 
> try list_to_integer(A)
> catch
>     throw:Term -> Term;
>     exit:Reason -> {'EXIT',Reason};
>     error:Reason -> {'EXIT',{Reason,erlang:get_stacktrace()}}
> end.
> 
> 
> and so forth....
> 
> -wes
> 
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