From: Sam Kong <sam.s.kong@...>
Date: 2005-05-11T01:00:27+09:00
Subject: Re: How to extract texts from html source?


Tom Reilly wrote:
> Several years ago, one of the members of the group offered me this
> routine which does a pretty good job of
> extracting the text from a html page.
>
> #--------------------------------------------------------------------
> #    Strip HTML Tags from Line
> #--------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> def striphtml(line)
>     line.gsub(/\n/, ' ').gsub(/<.*?>/, '')
> end

Thank you for sharing the code.
However, this code works only for a simple line, right?
When I tested it with a page of html by looping line by line, the
result was not what I expected.
Probably, I need to get a DOM parser...:-(

Sam