From: Joao Pedrosa Date: 2004-07-06T00:20:42+09:00 Subject: Re: Seperate body content from HTML Hi, Take a look at the HTMLTokenizer module at RAA. http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/htmltokenizer/ Cheers, Joao --- Matthew Margolis wrote: > I am currently working on a script that will parse > lyrics on online > lyric pages. To get at the actual lyrics I need to > take the HTML source > and somehow separate out all the content. I > would then put all > of the body content into a string and parse it to > remove all image tags, > style tags and non visible characters leaving me > with just text. > > I am new to Ruby and regular expressions so I am > having some trouble > getting the data between the and tags > into a string. > Right now I have the entire page loaded into a > string called data and I > run #scan with a regular expression and a block that > prints out the > matches from #scan. > > I guess I am just asking for a good regular > expression(or other means) > of separating out the body content of an HTML > document from the rest of > the source. > > Thanks, > Matthew Margolis > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail