mcc on Nostr: Imagine I have an HTML table ...
Imagine I have an HTML table
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System_games#Retail_releases
I want to extract one *column* of the HTML table, for example as a text list.
How would you do this?
I think the way I would do this is spend 20 minutes writing a regexp to run on the raw wiki text the html were generated from, then realize the regexp doesn't work correctly and is deleting data, then get frustrated, then the next weekend spend an entire day writing a combinator parser in like python and it not really be a good use of time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System_games#Retail_releases
I want to extract one *column* of the HTML table, for example as a text list.
How would you do this?
I think the way I would do this is spend 20 minutes writing a regexp to run on the raw wiki text the html were generated from, then realize the regexp doesn't work correctly and is deleting data, then get frustrated, then the next weekend spend an entire day writing a combinator parser in like python and it not really be a good use of time