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Once again, http.tcl and egghttp.tcl are NOT the same as "package http" - package http comes with the tcl library. Whether it works under cygwin, I do not know, but I would try removing the version number and just have "package require http" and see if that works. The other probl...

A good general security rule, when dealing with suspect input, is to have a list of allowed chars (A-Za-z0-9, etc), rather than a list of disallowed chars (more likely to overlook some chars when trying to disallow.) The allowed list would likely be shorter as well.

You'll be back =)

1) You posted in the wrong thread. The script you broke is the Movietome script, not the IMDB-now playing script

2) YOU broke it by modifying it. My copy works just fine, I just checked.

You broke it, you get to fix it

Make the channel +k <key> ?

Try this, as one line: regexp {<tr class="dlc_info_row">.*?<td>(.*?)</td>} $data - artist Newlines are just another char in regexp. And, the tcl parser isn't going to work properly if you have newlines in the middle of a regexp (unless perhaps if you escape them so the parser knows to cont...

theice wrote:but I couldn't find anywhere how to easily open a connecting to a website and parse the information.

Are you kidding?

You mean, out of all the hundreds of web-parsing script topics here, and all the web-parsing scripts in the archive, you couldn't find one example of how to grab/parse a website?

set errorInfo

pretty much the entire script, since the date format is hard-coded through-out.

http://www.egghelp.org/cgi-bin/tcl_archive.tcl?mode=download&id=1375 is a nicely written script, but it's for looking up users, not artists.. It also no longer works, afaict, because the url within the script is no longer valid. I only found 1 other lastfm script for "Somafm" in the eg...

Too much work for me.

Look for "date" in the archive.

Does icq's website still even support this? The url in the script doesn't exist anymore.

http://web.icq.com/whitepages/page_me/1,,,00.html