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October 26, 2010
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Need to copy Data from a specific Html Tag

  • October 26, 2010
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Hello,

I am trying to use CF to access website and capture data from a specific tag to the end of that tag and store same in a csv file or database.

The tag based search of an open file is where I am not able to get any head way. Any one has done this?

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    Dave WattsCommunity Expert
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    October 26, 2010

    You'll need to use a regular expression for that. CF supports regular expressions with the REFind, REFindNoCase and REReplace functions. Here's an example of using regular expressions to capture the value within an HTML tag:

    http://www.javamex.com/tutorials/regular_expressions/example_scraping_html.shtml

    It's in Java, but the syntax for regular expressions is the same in CF.

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