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gglover

04-16-2007, 07:03 PM

Hi there~

A mundane, manual but important research chore involves visiting 5 websites, searching to see if there's anything relevant and, if so, highlighting the section of text, copying it to the clipboard, then pasting into a Word document.

Is there a way of automating that?

Many thanks~

-G

Charles

04-16-2007, 07:45 PM

If you can define "relevant" in a way that is easily resolved then it's a snap with Perl and the the LWP::Simple, HTML::Tree::Builder and Win32::Clipboard modules. All are available as a part of the ActivePerl distribution.