Re: QueryPath Scrape to Array

[TechnoSophos]

By "each match" do you mean each text field from the table, each cell (or row) of table data?

Let's say that you want an array of text for each td. You'd do something like this:

$cells = $qp->branch('td');

$addresses = array();

foreach ($cells as $cell) {

  $addresses[] = $cell->text();

}

There are a few other ways you could try to do this, but the above is probably the simplest.

Matt

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On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 at 4:12 PM, KenJ wrote:

I'm extracting text from an HTML table using QueryPath. The structure of the tag looks like this:

<td class="address">Medford <br/>
16 This Street<br/>
Medford, MA 02155<br/><br/><strong>Other Stuff:</strong><br/></td>

I'm able to get all of the text but I'd like to put each match into an array so I can work with them.

How can I put each match into an array?

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[KenJ]

How could I get the data between the <br>'s. I'm looking at textbefore() and textafter() but not able to get them working like this:

123 This Street<br>This Town<br>GA<br>00000

$address = $item->branch('div.address');
$street = $address1->find('br')->textBefore();

[TechnoSophos]

There are a few ways to do it, but the easiest may be the strangest looking one:

$address = $item->branch('div.address');

$parts = $address->children()->get()

$text = array()

foreach ($parts as $node) {

  if ($node->nodeType == XML_TEXT_NODE) {

    $text[] = $node->data
  }
}

After that, $text will have one text entry per piece of the address. You may need to trim off whitespace.

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