Data-Scrubbing A Ruse?
So I’m still tinkering with FileMaker 8.5 and I’m not totally sold on the data-scrubbing PR that’s being spun in the direction of users. For example, is it easy to get prices from a live auction on eBay? From the visual, we are led to believe that we have to hard-code parts of the example eBay page, and then take the value from within the tags. Hmmmm, I’m not too convinced we can actually do that with anything but the most primitive of HTML pages.
Has anyone gotten this to work or have any code samples worth reviewing?
I’m not entirely sure how this “data-scrubbing” is supposed to work, unless it’s intent is finding tag fragments and parsing the data that’s supposed to reside right-next-to that tag. Sounds like a recipe for a lot of pain.
My point exactly. Unless the code looks something like this [tag]$159.00[/tag] then we’ll only be able to hard-code the before and after code which isn’t worth advertising as a feature…