From: Alex McHale <alexmchale@...>
Date: 2004-05-25T00:46:54+09:00
Subject: Re: separate a HTML-tag in a hash

Ok this is really rough around the edges and I'm sure has a bug hiding
in it, but on your sample there it works fine.  It also works for
single tags (like checked and last in my example below).  This is a
Q&D 2 minute job, I'm sure you or someone else can refine it.

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby

def explode_tag tag
    return nil unless tag.is_a? String

    hash = Hash.new
    unless tag.sub!(/<([^\s]+) /, '').nil?
        hash['tagName'] = $1
        hash[$1] = $2 until tag.sub!(/([^\s]+)\s*=\s*"([^"]*)"\s*/, '').nil?
        hash[$1] = true until tag.sub!(/([^\s\/<>]+)(\s+|\/|>)/, '').nil?
    end
    hash
end

s = '<input type="text" name="test" size="20" checked style="border:
1px; color: red;" last/>'
h = explode_tag(s)
puts h.inspect


Also don't be afraid to tell him this is crap! =)

Alex McHale