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wellso1

12-31-2002, 06:10 PM

How do I enable my web page to extract text from another web page and display it?

An example application:

Display the current price for a stock on your personalized web page by parsing one of the free online stock quote pages for the string containing the quote.

AdamBrill

12-31-2002, 06:14 PM

I don't think that can be done in javascript. You might be able to do it in PHP or PERL, but I'm not sure. I guess it depends on how the other page is set up...

khalidali63

12-31-2002, 06:17 PM

Yes,Javascript does not have the ability to do such a task.
You will have to resort to server side programming as mentioned above or java/vb related technologies

Khalid