From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-07-06T15:40:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Extract/Parse String?

Assaph Mehr <assaph@gmail.com> wrote:
> Use regular expressions
> (http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/intro.html#S5),
> then #scan the string for something that matches. Eg. assuming the
> format is always 'treeframe' followed by digits:
>
> irb(main):038:0> c.scan /treeframe\d+/
> => ["treeframe1120266500902"]
>
> You'll get an array with all the results. If you know you have only
> one occurence you can use String#slice (or String#[]) to get the first
> value:
>
> irb(main):037:0> c[/treeframe\d+/]
> => "treeframe1120266500902"
>
> HTH,
> Assaph

Although that'll work for this particular string, I'd rather think this is a 
case for a HTML parser.  Apparently the name of a frame is wanted and a HTML 
parser is the safest way to get that info.

Kind regards

    robert