I didn't want to reinvent the wheel. I was just checking to see if there was anything out there that I could start with. I do have things in mind of how to do it, but if there's something already out there, why not use it? Would you write a linked list implementation when there's already one out there in the STL?

What I was wanting was some sort of algorithm for pattern matching and finding these prices in a web page. Crawling a page is easy.

Well, I've never seen a forum less helpful than this one. Why does everyone think that I'm trying to have homework done? That would be stupid. When I went to college I paid too much to not have the professors help with any questions I may have with homework. Why would someone come here to have homework done?

So is everyone just going to make snarky comments and offer no help? You don't even know that this is for a price comparison site. There are many, many more possibilites for such information.

This is not for a class. I already hold 2 degrees in computer science. Just wondering if there are any sort of exisiting algorithms out there for doing this sort of thing. It is for a job.

I've search google and can't find any realy good solutions to this and was wondering if anybody knew of any examples of algorithms that can look at a page and extract product information and pricing like some of the shopping sites do. I know this is possible because they do it, but I just can't find alot of information about the algorithms. Thanks