I recently decided to start learning Perl. I usually choose something useful for my first project in any language, so I decided to write a script to give information based upon a supplied MAC address.
Everything in the script works fine, until I try to display the MAC vendor.
In order to do so, I supply the MAC address as a query to a website which checks it against a database. That website then displays the vendor in the page in the form of a link to a Google search.
I am able to get the HTML contents just fine, but I need to get the Google search argument. For example, if my MAC address is 00:11:22:33:44: 55, the website will return a link to "http://www.google.com/search?q=CIMSYS Inc"
I need to be able to extract and display the "CIMSYS Inc" part of that particular link. So far, I have tried several regular expressions to no avail. I have messed around with HTML::SimpleLin kExtor, HTML::Parser, and a few others. They seem to be what I need, but for some reason or another I am not using them correctly.
Can someone give some insight to this? I don't want to be spoonfed, but rather given a push in the right direction from someone who has done this before.
As always, any (useful) input is appreciated.
Everything in the script works fine, until I try to display the MAC vendor.
In order to do so, I supply the MAC address as a query to a website which checks it against a database. That website then displays the vendor in the page in the form of a link to a Google search.
I am able to get the HTML contents just fine, but I need to get the Google search argument. For example, if my MAC address is 00:11:22:33:44: 55, the website will return a link to "http://www.google.com/search?q=CIMSYS Inc"
I need to be able to extract and display the "CIMSYS Inc" part of that particular link. So far, I have tried several regular expressions to no avail. I have messed around with HTML::SimpleLin kExtor, HTML::Parser, and a few others. They seem to be what I need, but for some reason or another I am not using them correctly.
Can someone give some insight to this? I don't want to be spoonfed, but rather given a push in the right direction from someone who has done this before.
As always, any (useful) input is appreciated.
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