# Counting the number of paragraphs ("p") between containers ("div") **URL:** \ **Category:** General Usage\ **Tags:** web, website, http\ **Created:** [January 5, 2023, 9:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/counting-the-number-of-paragraphs-p-between-containers-div/92576 "2023-01-05T21:49:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nash](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nash/32/14482_2.png) [@Nash](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nash)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 9:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/counting-the-number-of-paragraphs-p-between-containers-div/92576/1 "2023-01-05T21:49:37Z")
I am trying to parse the content of a website and part of the logic to get the right information is counting the number of times a paragraph of text (represented by the element “p”) occurs between a particular container type (represented by “div.ttt-subhead” (ie., not all divs, but only the one stated)) Can I use Gumbo or Cascadia for this? If so, how? If not, then how can I find the count? ---
**Author:** ![nilshg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nilshg/32/2283_2.png) [@nilshg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nilshg)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 11:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/counting-the-number-of-paragraphs-p-between-containers-div/92576/2 "2023-01-05T23:57:27Z")
What have you tried? Why is it not working as expected? Can you post an MWE? ---
**Author:** ![Nash](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nash/32/14482_2.png) [@Nash](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nash)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 12:04am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/counting-the-number-of-paragraphs-p-between-containers-div/92576/3 "2023-01-06T00:04:20Z")
Well, I am quite out of my depth. I have been able to extract p’s and div’s using the following code, but I don’t know how to “relate” the p’s and the div’s to each other: ```julia n = length(eachmatch(Selector("div.ttt-subhead"),body[1])) for i = 1:n println(eachmatch(Selector("div.ttt-subhead"),body[1])[i]) end n = length(eachmatch(Selector("p"),body[1])) for i = 1:n println(eachmatch(Selector("p"),body[1])[i]) end ``` Here is a basic HTML to use: ```julia
8:00 Breakfast

Eggs.

Bacon.

12:00 Lunch

Burger.

Fries.

Coke.

18:00 Dinner

Salad.

``` ---
**Author:** ![skleinbo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/skleinbo/32/36080_2.png) [@skleinbo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/skleinbo)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 7:50am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/counting-the-number-of-paragraphs-p-between-containers-div/92576/4 "2023-01-06T07:50:45Z")
Maybe your code works, but the HTML in your example is not correct. Gumbo doesn’t parse your example correctly. It should read ```julia
``` Then this works ```julia julia> using Cascadia, Gumbo julia> dom = parsehtml(myhtml) julia> map(eachmatch(Selector("div.ttt-subhead"), dom.root)) do d length(eachmatch(Selector("p"), d)) end 3-element Vector{Int64}: 1 2 1 ``` where `myhtml` is the (corrected) example from your post. ---
**Author:** ![Nash](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nash/32/14482_2.png) [@Nash](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nash)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 8:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/counting-the-number-of-paragraphs-p-between-containers-div/92576/5 "2023-01-06T08:29:58Z")
> [@skleinbo](#): > > `
` Sorry, I must learn to ask the right question. I appreciate your help. Unfortunately, a better description of my problem is given by the following HTML (I have also edited the HTML in my original post): ```julia
8:00 Breakfast

Eggs.

Bacon.

12:00 Lunch

Burger.

Fries.

Coke.

18:00 Dinner

Salad.

``` ---
**Author:** ![skleinbo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/skleinbo/32/36080_2.png) [@skleinbo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/skleinbo)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 8:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/counting-the-number-of-paragraphs-p-between-containers-div/92576/6 "2023-01-06T08:36:00Z")
Still not sure what you are trying to match. In your revised example, the `div.ttt-subhead` do not close around the paragraphs. ---
**Author:** ![Nash](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nash/32/14482_2.png) [@Nash](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nash)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 9:04am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/counting-the-number-of-paragraphs-p-between-containers-div/92576/7 "2023-01-06T09:04:37Z")
The answer to my question using the above HTML is count = [2,3,1] This vector is obtained by counting the number of paragraphs between the “Breakfast” and “Lunch” container, the “Lunch” and “Dinner” container, and after the “Dinner” container. ---
**Author:** ![skleinbo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/skleinbo/32/36080_2.png) [@skleinbo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/skleinbo)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 9:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/counting-the-number-of-paragraphs-p-between-containers-div/92576/8 "2023-01-06T09:59:40Z")
What about: ```julia
8:00 Breakfast

Eggs.

Bacon.

Hashbrowns.

12:00 Lunch
``` I assume this should count as `3` rather than `[2,1]`? ---
**Author:** ![Nash](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nash/32/14482_2.png) [@Nash](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nash)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 10:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/counting-the-number-of-paragraphs-p-between-containers-div/92576/9 "2023-01-06T10:36:43Z")
Yes, in your example, the solution is [2,1]. But it is a little different than my example. In your example, there is two `
"` between the `
` for each each `
**Author:** ![skleinbo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/skleinbo/32/36080_2.png) [@skleinbo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/skleinbo)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 10:39am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/counting-the-number-of-paragraphs-p-between-containers-div/92576/10 "2023-01-06T10:39:16Z")
Then won’t just changing `Selector("div.ttt-subhead")` to `Selector("div.ttt-row")` in my proposal do the trick? ---
**Author:** ![Nash](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nash/32/14482_2.png) [@Nash](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nash)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 10:50am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/counting-the-number-of-paragraphs-p-between-containers-div/92576/11 "2023-01-06T10:50:32Z")
> [@skleinbo](#): > > “div.ttt-row” Please see my comment above, since it probably makes a difference. ---
**Author:** ![lawless-m](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/lawless-m/32/30869_2.png) [@lawless-m](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lawless-m)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 10:58am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/counting-the-number-of-paragraphs-p-between-containers-div/92576/12 "2023-01-06T10:58:20Z")
[I transliterated Python’s HTML Parser](https://github.com/lawless-m/HTMLParser.jl) if that helps at all ---
**Author:** ![skleinbo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/skleinbo/32/36080_2.png) [@skleinbo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/skleinbo)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 10:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/counting-the-number-of-paragraphs-p-between-containers-div/92576/13 "2023-01-06T10:59:48Z")
Have you tried it out? If all paragraphs are wrapped in `div.ttt-row`, this should give you what you want. ---
**Author:** ![Nash](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nash/32/14482_2.png) [@Nash](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nash)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 11:08am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/counting-the-number-of-paragraphs-p-between-containers-div/92576/14 "2023-01-06T11:08:28Z")
Yes, unfortunately it didn’t work in my case. Could you perhaps try and modify your example so it matches mine, and then see if your prior solution works? If it does, then maybe it is because my simplified example does not capture my case. ---
**Author:** ![Nash](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nash/32/14482_2.png) [@Nash](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nash)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 11:10am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/counting-the-number-of-paragraphs-p-between-containers-div/92576/15 "2023-01-06T11:10:02Z")
I am not familiar with that package. Given your knowledge of it, would it work? ---
**Author:** ![skleinbo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/skleinbo/32/36080_2.png) [@skleinbo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/skleinbo)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 11:11am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/counting-the-number-of-paragraphs-p-between-containers-div/92576/16 "2023-01-06T11:11:54Z")
```julia julia> using Cascadia julia> myhtml = """
8:00 Breakfast

Eggs.

Bacon.

12:00 Lunch

Burger.

Fries.

Coke.

18:00 Dinner

Salad.

""" "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
8:00 Breakfast
\n\n\n
\n

\n Eggs.\n

\n

\n Bacon.\n

\n
\n\n\n
12:00 Lunch
\n\n
\n

\n Burger.\n

\n

\n Fries.\n

\n

\n Coke.\n

\n
\n\n
18:00 Dinner
\n\n
\n

\n Salad.\n

\n
\n\n\n\n" julia> using Gumbo julia> dom = parsehtml(myhtml) HTML Document: HTMLElement{:HTML}:
8:00 Breakfast

Eggs.

Bacon.

12:00 ... julia> map(eachmatch(Selector("div.ttt-row"), dom.root)) do d length(eachmatch(Selector("p"), d)) end 3-element Vector{Int64}: 2 3 1 ``` ---
**Author:** ![lawless-m](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/lawless-m/32/30869_2.png) [@lawless-m](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lawless-m)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 11:11am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/counting-the-number-of-paragraphs-p-between-containers-div/92576/17 "2023-01-06T11:11:56Z")
It is certainly more manual, you fire the HTML into it and it uses callbacks on Open Tag, Close Tag, and Data (text inside tags). You then would inspect the attributes manually and set flags to know where you are in the document. So it would definitely work, but so do you 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nash](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nash/32/14482_2.png) [@Nash](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nash)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 11:30am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/counting-the-number-of-paragraphs-p-between-containers-div/92576/18 "2023-01-06T11:30:39Z")
> [@skleinbo](#): > > ```julia > map(eachmatch(Selector("div.ttt-row"), dom.root)) do d > length(eachmatch(Selector("p"), d)) > end > > ``` I can see that your original proposal works in your example. Unfortunately, it does not work for me. Perhaps the solution you had in mind above (the one that gave 3, and not [2,1]) is the right one in my case. How would your code be changed to accommodate that? ---
**Author:** ![skleinbo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/skleinbo/32/36080_2.png) [@skleinbo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/skleinbo)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 11:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/counting-the-number-of-paragraphs-p-between-containers-div/92576/19 "2023-01-06T11:35:00Z")
> [@Nash](#): > > works in your example It’s verbatim your example! ---
**Author:** ![Nash](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nash/32/14482_2.png) [@Nash](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nash)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 11:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/counting-the-number-of-paragraphs-p-between-containers-div/92576/20 "2023-01-06T11:52:51Z")
Yes, you are right. I am sorry for not being very clear. In my case, it turns out that the number of “p” between each `