Gabi Huiber <[email protected]> and Sebastian Bauhoff <[email protected]>:
I suspect Gabi has some extended ASCII characters in there causing the
trouble that one might not even be able to see, and will not appear in
plain text email to the list. Try analyzing the file with
hexdump `file', analyze results
and then use -filefilter- to remove or replace potentially problematic
characters before further processing.
For Sebastian's problem, he may be able to do something like this:
copy http://whatever.com/some.html i.html, replace
insheet using i.html
g firstline=substr(v1,1,9)=="something"
g lastline=substr(v1,1,14)=="something else"
g keep=sum(firstline)-sum(lastline)
list if keep
but -insheet- will also choke on extended ASCII characters, so
-hexdump- and -filefilter- may be required first.
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Gabi Huiber <[email protected]> wrote:
> In an earlier response of mine to this post I blamed the ...
> (dot-dot-dot) special character for breaking my file read code. That
> was not the reason.
>
> The command file read `fh' line chokes on do-file lines where a
> comment is inserted before the end of the line with the double forward
> slash syntax. I have no idea how to make that go away. I tried
> enclosing my file read/file write routine within this if-condition:
>
> if !regexm("macval(`line')","[[a-zA-Z0-9][:punct:]]*\/\/"){
> read line in this file
> write line in that file
> }
>
> But that had no effect.
>
> Gabi
>
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Sebastian Bauhoff <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Dear Statalisters,
> >
> > I need to download a large number of html files from the internet and parse
> > their content. The structure of the html pages is always the same, and I
> > need to extract only a small part that is identified within the html code.
> > I would like to use Stata to download the files, extract the information I
> > want, and save the result in a dataset. Any suggestions or pointers much
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sebastian
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