Copy & paste web page info

Question

i somewhat new to coldfusion and i can't figure out how to do something..
lets say there is a web page with these texts
hi abc bye
hi 123 bye
hi a1b2 c3 bye
i want to create a page that will go to a specific web page and search throught that web page for the word hi and then grab the following text up to the word bye... then it'll place those text in a file... so for example it'll copy only the text
abc
123
a1b2 c3
...and paste them in a file
is this possible??
can someone please point me in the right direction, i been at this for almost two days!
thanks in advance.

Answer 1

cfquery_select_name wrote:
i want to create a page that will go to a specific web page
So you want to make an HTTP request for a web page, that would be the purpose of the <CFHTTP....> Tag.
cfquery_select_name wrote:
 search throught that web page
Then you want to find text in the content returned from the request.  the find() and refind() functions (most likely the later) would be helpful here.
cfquery_select_name wrote:
 ...and paste them in a file
Finaly you would like to write output to a file.  The <cffile action="write"...> would be the first choice for this task.
That just leaves the actual searching.  Like I said I would probably try a REFIND that uses regular expression syntax to find the desired text.  Something like this untested example off the top of my head should get you started.
<cfset match = refind(searchString,"hi(.*?)bye",1,true)>
<cfdump var="#match#">
Then finally a loop over this code to find each instance of the desired string.
cfquery_select_name wrote:
 is this possible??
Quite possible, it should just take some trail and error and looking at the appropiate documentation.