HTML_TABLE_TO_DB(1)

NAME
html_table_to_db - convert HTML tables into fsdb

SYNOPSIS
    html_table_to_db <source.html >dest.fsdb

DESCRIPTION
Converts a HTML table to Fsdb format.

The input is an HTML table (not fsdb). Column names are taken from "TH" elements, or defined as "column0" through "columnN" if no such elements appear.

The output is two-space-separated fsdb. (Someday more general field separators should be supported.) Fsdb fields are normalized version of the html file: multiple spaces are compressed to one.

This module also supports the standard fsdb options:

-d  Enable debugging output.

-i or --input InputSource
    Read from InputSource, typically a file name, or "-" for standard input, or (if in Perl) a IO::Handle, Fsdb::IO or Fsdb::BoundedQueue objects.

-o or --output OutputDestination
    Write to OutputDestination, typically a file name, or "-" for standard output, or (if in Perl) a IO::Handle, Fsdb::IO or Fsdb::BoundedQueue objects.

--autorun or --noautorun
    By default, programs process automatically, but Fsdb::Filter objects in Perl do not run until you invoke the run() method. The "--(no)autorun" option controls that behavior within Perl.

--help
    Show help.

--man
    Show full manual.

SAMPLE USAGE

  Input:
        <table>
        <tr><th>account</th> <th>passwd</th> <th>uid</th> <th>gid</th> <th>fullname</th> <th>homedir</th> <th>shell</th> </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#f0f0f0"><td>johnh</td> <td>*</td> <td>2274</td> <td>134</td> <td>John &amp; Ampersand</td> <td>/home/johnh</td> <td>/bin/bash</td> </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#f0f0f0"><td>greg</td> <td>*</td> <td>2275</td> <td>134</td> <td>Greg &lt; Lessthan</td> <td>/home/greg</td> <td>/bin/bash</td> </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#f0f0f0"><td>root</td> <td>*</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>Root ; Semi</td> <td>/root</td> <td>/bin/bash</td> </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#d0d0d0"><td>four</td> <td>*</td> <td>1</td> <td>1</td> <td>Fourth Row</td> <td>/home/four</td> <td>/bin/bash</td> </tr>
        </table>

  Command:
    html_table_to_db

  Output:
        #fsdb -F S account passwd uid gid fullname homedir shell
        johnh  *  2274  134  John & Ampersand  /home/johnh  /bin/bash
        greg  *  2275  134  Greg < Lessthan  /home/greg  /bin/bash
        root  *  0  0  Root ; Semi  /root  /bin/bash
        four  *  1  1  Fourth Row  /home/four  /bin/bash

SEE ALSO
Fsdb. db_to_html_table.

AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1991-2015 by John Heidemann <johnh@isi.edu>

This program is distributed under terms of the GNU general public license, version 2. See the file COPYING with the distribution for details.