So basically I have made a HTML file with a table in it. Column 3 contains a GenBank number and is always proceeded by "=GenBank">".
I want to read the file and return the number which comes directly after this (the contents of column 3). Ideally I would like to save this number as a string for use later in the script, but any help is good help. Been at this for HOURS and HOURS and HOURS. This is what I have so far: #Open html file $filename1 = 'Result1.html'; open (FILE1, $filename1) or die "Can't open $filename1 $!"; #Create array of results file data @html1 = <FILE1>; close (FILE1); #What to look for $genbank='^=GenBank">\$'; foreach $html1(@html1) { if (index($html1,$genbank) ge 0) { print "Number here!\n"; } } -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Read-from-HTML-file-print-if-see-a-specific-string-tp4093273p4093273.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.