Ok, good idea. I have had the open files many times while working out the different scripts. Will take your advice and make a close file script.

Will let you know how the new file works.

Thanks for the hard work. Will be in touch.

The new scrub file changed the layout of the modified file. so am going back and reworking my scripts to use the new files. Not a big problem, certainly not a complaint. But I do have a favor, that original script file that pulled the market indexes does not work anymore. I cant quite figure that one out, would you be willing to take a look and repost it using the new scrub program?

Other then that things are working good.

Thanks.

Sure. Be glad to have a look at them. Sorry the latest change caused problems. I guess that extra character on the Es made more of a change than one would think.

All in all, maybe now might be a good time to get with the new version of things I have been working on. What I have works with the two Yahoo sites and the Marketwatch site. So you could start those from that basis if you like. The whole thing can be totally separate from what you have now as well. No overwriting of what you have.

The way the code goes is pretty much like before. The only major difference is that, instead of Gotos to go to parts of the code that is common to many functions of the script, now CommandControl instructions are used. Like the Goto to ExtractVal. Now it's CC(\(_Main,ScriptStartWait,\)_ExtractVal). That way you don't have to repeat the same Goto script in each script that needs that bit of code. Nor do you have to update it in every one when it comes time to make a change to one of the Goto routines.

What I can do is integrate whatever you have now into the new system so you won't have to climb that hill at least. So send whatever you have finished or not and I can integrate it and get it working to that point at least.

While on the subject, I was wondering why you are using separate directories and multiple copies of the scrub program? Perhaps there is something I need to do to make the program setup more versatile?

Let me answer your last question first. I was keeping them separate for 2 reasons. The first reason if I got something working, I didn't want to take any chances on messing it up. The second reason was that as I was working on the script I would like to pull up the modified file to check the layout, so I kept it separate. After thinking about it, I probably didn't need to do that.

I was never able to get the MarketWatch site to work to my satisfaction. Also, I will try working on the Calendar site. What do you mean when you say send what I have? The scripts I have set up that are using the HTMLScrub program. I made a couple on my own. I also have the modified HTML script that is not working, but I tweaked for my use. I am not at the computer with the scripts on it. So I will send you another post with those scripts in an hour or so.

I have attached a zip file with 2 scripts. One is the modified market index script that I modified but stopped working with the new HTML program. The other is an ISS pass script that I am working on. Hopefully these are what you wanted to review. The market index script is the one I need to get fixed, but following your script, which works well, is complicated for me.scripts.zip

Finally got to looking at the files, The problem I found was the in the line:

$Prefix ="#<td class=symb-col><a href= investing index "

It should be:

$Prefix ="<td class=symb-col><a href=/investing/index/"

This is likely because of the latest executable I sent to you. I know in one version I had replaced the front slash symbol ( / ) with a space during the scrubbing run. I later realized that was not necessary and stopped doing it in the program to give the scrub process a little speed boost. Also because I found it necessary in some cases. If you're using the new program file with this script now, that would be why it suddenly didn't work. Fortunately that seems to be the only search string like that in that script. Sorry for the problem, but at least you will now know what to look for in any other scripts which may give you faults with the new executable. The latest executable that I'm using with the latest version of the whole thing I'm working on now is also that way, so any changes made will still be good to go with it as well.

Just a quick note to let you know I haven't forgotten about you or given up. Simply haven't had much time to work on the scrubber and associated scripts this past week. This week should be better.

WBS00001. No problem. I went back to v2 of the scrubber for the stock market indexes and it is working fine. Take your time, I appreciate your support and help.