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    Posted: 21 August 2003 at 8:56pm
I'm trying to save myself some time by writing a script that adds comics to my database for me. The only problem is that all the comic <img src=... tags are located in emails. Just to add to the headache, the emails have ads of varying lengths, so that rules out a goto line type function. Also, there is more than one <img src... tag. Any Ideas (If you want the email soure i'll post it, it's quite lengthy...)
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Does the comic always have a certain type of name?
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The comic image tag reads "<IMG SRC="http://www.funnymail.com/webdata/cs/20030502.gif">". Notice that the numbers in the filename are the date. The rest stays the same.
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You can then extract all the image tags and from there narrow it down to todays date.

I did a similar type of thing for a web page in VB.

Not sure if ASP has it but use Instr() to find <IMG SRC= then move through the text until you find the ">" tag then you will be left with the img path.

Each time you find a pic you will need to remove that part of the text so next time Instr() will find a new pic.

 
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now just to add a new problem. I want to download that picture and save it onto my computer, and add it to a database. I got the second part i just need to know how to download the picture.
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You may be able to use file system to save as xxx.xxx on your hard drive. This will only work if the email is on your hard drive already. Then save the path to the file in your db not the pic.

Are you doing this in VB or ASP?
Where is the email source remote or local?
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I'm coding in ASP. I've finally got the search to work! It finds all the image sources without problem. The email source is on my local harddrive. I think i should go and search for a component or something that downloads stuff from the internet.
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You already have one that should do the trick, do a google for 'microsoft xmlhttp' Use that to get the data and filesystem object to save it on your hdisk.

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