C++ HTML Reader and Parser

Gladiatos (2)
I'm having some issues with html reading and parsing program.
I'm trying to read a sales listing html and draw the Item name, date of listing and price out.
So far, i am able to read the item name, but reading the other two information is proving to be an issue.
Also, declaring two different getline(in,s)/getline(in,ss) produces different output.
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while(getline(in, s))
{
  namePH1 = s.find("/marketplace/view/");
  if (namePH1!=-1)                 
  {
    namePH2 = s.find("</a>");
    namePH3 = namePH1+26;
    string nameTmp = s.substr(namePH3,namePH2-namePH3);  // searching for the Name positions 
    list[current].name = nameTmp;
    current++;
  }
}

The above code works fine for getting the name.
However, when I edit the code to search for the Date of listing, I am unable to get a good result.
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while(getline(in, s))
{
  namePH1 = s.find("/marketplace/view/");
  if (namePH1!=-1)                 
  {
    namePH2 = s.find("</a>");
    namePH3 = namePH1+26;
    string nameTmp = s.substr(namePH3,namePH2-namePH3);  // searching for the Name positions 
    list[current].name = nameTmp;

    datePH1 = s.find("date\">");
    datePH2 = s.find("in <")-14;
    datePH3 = datePH1+6;
    string dateTmp = s.substr(datePH3,datePH2-datePH3);
    list[current].date = dateTmp;

    current++;
  }
}

The print out becomes rubbish like so :

Samsung Galaxy Note N7000-		<a href="/marketplace/view/165162">Samsung Galaxy Note N7000</a>						</h3>

This is the actual html snippet if it's any help,
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<a href="/marketplace/view/165162">Samsung Galaxy Note N7000</a>						</h3>
						<p class="byline">
							<span class="item-list-date">03 May 2012														in <a href="/marketplace/list/mobile">Mobile Phones &amp; Accessories</a>																					by <a href="/marketplace/seller/542707">fajrltd</a>														</span>

It's messy, but that's the raw html that I'm trying to extract the data from.
As you can see, I am able to grab the Name successfully, but my attempt to read out the date of listing is just grabbing everything else.

Also, if i edit my code so that i call in a new getline(), e.g
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getline(in,ss);
datePH1 = ss.find("date\">");
datePH2 = ss.find("in <")-14;
datePH3 = datePH1+6;
string dateTmp = ss.substr(datePH3,datePH2-datePH3);
list[current].date = dateTmp;

The output changes to

Samsung Galaxy Note N7000-	<p class="byline">-


I know it's really long and but is anyone out there able to give me some tips or point me in the right direction?
Last edited on
Gladiatos (2)
Help anyone?
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