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: <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5" > 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 <html><pre> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Raymond Norton Ask me about Toastmasters! http://h2tm.org