From: shaobo.li@... Date: 2005-01-11T18:21:19+09:00 Subject: cannot I search the doc's contents (doc=file.read) one more times? Hi, I wanna retrive ip and its port from the html file which contains "61.135.158.111 80",cannot I search the doc's contents (doc=file.read) one more times? doc=file.read #first get ip'es success ips=doc.scan(/(\d{1,3}[.]\d{1,3}[.]\d{1,3}[.]\d{1,3})/) ips.each {|ip| puts ip } #then get ports still on doc ,but no one got nothing,if commentted above ip scans ,this would works. ports=doc.scan(/(\d+)<\/td>/) ports.each {|port| puts port } file.close Thanks in advance!