helium selects automatically more text than i want

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Chrisscholten
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helium selects automatically more text than i want

Post by Chrisscholten » Fri Mar 30, 2012 2:08 pm

When I try to select a part of a text it automatically selects the whole text.
In this text are carriage returns and this i get in my table.
When i export it , i am not able to get these CR's out

Does anyobody have a solution for this?

I think webdesigners are aware of scrapers and combine this text as an object on purpose, so you are not able to extract it as a table with columns.

BR Chris

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Re: helium selects automatically more text than i want

Post by caliman » Fri Mar 30, 2012 7:58 pm

do you have an example?

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Re: helium selects automatically more text than i want

Post by webmaster » Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:44 am

This text is probably a single HTML element. You can use a text gatherer at Project -> Text Gatherers to split the text or for more advanced stuff a javascript gatherer at Project -> JavaScript Gatherers. Here is some more info on how to use the text gatherers feature.
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Chrisscholten
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Re: helium selects automatically more text than i want

Post by Chrisscholten » Tue Apr 03, 2012 7:55 am

Thanks for your help, it worked out, you have a great application and your support is top.

BR Chris

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