 stuck at the beginning.  I 
would just use wget and perl to read in the file every 5 minutes and strip 
out all the stuff you don't want leaving only the two parts you do want. 
I could do this for you pretty easily if I knew exactly which part of the 
file you wanted (i.e., how to identify where the sections begin and end 
based on certain text strings).  I'd probably keep the time stamp, too.

I don't know how to force a refresh, though.  I would just use Ctrl-r or 
click the refresh button whenever I wanted the latest version.

Mike

From admin at lctn.org  Wed Oct 27 11:00:12 2010
From: admin at lctn.org (Raymond Norton)
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:00:12 -0500
Subject: [tclug-list] OT HTML Question
In-Reply-To: 
References: <4CC73866.3050401@lctn.org>			<4CC82067.10007@lctn.org>

Message-ID: <4CC84C8C.6080105@lctn.org>

The file does not exist yet ( I will use the existing file for testing), 
but I imagine the headings will appear like this:

COUNCIL MEMBER SEAT 1 CITY OF HUTCHINSON

and

COUNTY SHERIFF

The refresh can be taken care of with the following:

Mike Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Raymond Norton wrote:
> 
>> Here is an example of what the page will look like on the day of the 
>> election:
>>
>> http://www.co.mcleod.mn.us/department_files/Auditor/Election_results/general/EL30.htm
>>
>> I want to display the information for the Hutchinson City Council and 
>> McLeod County Sheriffs race.
>>
>> I expect to need two different pages for this, but maybe there is some 
>> way to split a page with information from both races centered in the 
>> browser window. Last go around was very laborious as we always had to 
>> scroll to the locations we were interested in every time the page 
>> refreshed.  The plan is to force a refresh every 5 minutes and not 
>> require user interaction.
> 
> 
> It's a simple plain text file with  stuck at the beginning.  I 
> would just use wget and perl to read in the file every 5 minutes and strip 
> out all the stuff you don't want leaving only the two parts you do want. 
> I could do this for you pretty easily if I knew exactly which part of the 
> file you wanted (i.e., how to identify where the sections begin and end 
> based on certain text strings).  I'd probably keep the time stamp, too.
> 
> I don't know how to force a refresh, though.  I would just use Ctrl-r or 
> click the refresh button whenever I wanted the latest version.
> 
> Mike
> 
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From ronsmailbox5 at gmail.com  Wed Oct 27 11:27:40 2010
From: ronsmailbox5 at gmail.com (r j)
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:27:40 -0500
Subject: [tclug-list] OT HTML
Message-ID: 

I agree with Curtis. But I can think of an easier way.

"On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Curtis Griesel wrote:

 If the source page does not have an html bookmark at the location to
 which you'd like to jump, you're only other option is to feed the html
 source into a database and display the results you want from your own
 database.  Probably not as simple as you'd like, but certainly doable."

I would use HTML 5. I am not sure if it is an option for you.
You can access the built in sqlight database. It leaves room for storage in
the browser.
http://creativepark.net/blog/entry/id/1191
Has an example.
I would suggest getting up to speed on the standard as its making webmasters
life a lot easier.
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From mbmiller+l at gmail.com  Wed Oct 27 14:43:08 2010
From: mbmiller+l at gmail.com (Mike Miller)
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:43:08 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [tclug-list] OT HTML Question
In-Reply-To: <4CC84C8C.6080105@lctn.org>
References: <4CC73866.3050401@lctn.org>

	<4CC82067.10007@lctn.org>

	<4CC84C8C.6080105@lctn.org>
Message-ID: 

On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Raymond Norton wrote:

> The file does not exist yet ( I will use the existing file for testing), 
> but I imagine the headings will appear like this:
>
> COUNCIL MEMBER SEAT 1 CITY OF HUTCHINSON
>
> and
>
> COUNTY SHERIFF
>
> The refresh can be taken care of with the following:
>
> 

The attached bash script, as currently written, grabs the HTML file, 
filters it through a perl regexp search/replace filter and produces the 
following output.  See instructions on how to fix it for your particular 
job.  We don't know exactly the format of the file right now, so I give a 
couple of guesses.  The input uses Windows text (carriage-return, newline 
pairs at ends of lines, so the script retains that).

PRECINCT REPORT       MCLEOD COUNTY, MINNESOTA         UNOFFICIAL RESULTS
RUN DATE:11/06/08     GENERAL ELECTION
RUN TIME:12:06 PM     NOVEMBER 4, 2008

           COUNCIL MEMBER SEAT 3 CITY OF HUTCHINSON
           VOTE FOR UP TO  1
            ERIC YOST  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .   1311   50.68
            MARY CHRISTENSEN .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .   1270   49.09
            WRITE-IN.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .      6     .23

           JUDGE 28 1ST DISTRICT COURT
           VOTE FOR UP TO  1
            KAREN ASPHAUG .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .   1841   99.46
            WRITE-IN.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .     10     .54

Best,
Mike
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#!/bin/bash

wget -qO - http://www.co.mcleod.mn.us/department_files/Auditor/Election_results/general/EL30.htm | \

# comment out this line:
perl -pe 'BEGIN{undef $/} ; s#.*?(.*?)(\r\n){2}.*\n( *COUNCIL MEMBER SEAT 3 CITY OF HUTCHINSON.*?(\r\n){2}).*?\n( *JUDGE 28.*?(\r\n){2}).*#\r\n\r\n$1$2$2$3$5\r\n\r\n#s' > EL30_part.html

# uncomment this line if SHERIFF comes second:
# perl -pe 'BEGIN{undef $/} ; s#.*?(.*?)(\r\n){2}.*\n( *COUNCIL MEMBER SEAT 1 CITY OF HUTCHINSON.*?(\r\n){2}).*?\n( *COUNTY SHERIFF.*?(\r\n){2}).*#\r\n\r\n$1$2$2$3$5