From: Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>
Date: 2005-08-12T11:21:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular Expression question

Some ideas:

- session_id2 = session_id.match(/sessionId=(.*)"/)[1]
- session_id2 = session_id[/sessionId=.*(?=")/].gsub(/sessionId=/,'')
- session_id2 = session_id.match(/sessionId=([\w-]*)/)[1]
(Now go find out what these things do. :)

- google for ruby html parser
- go to http://bike-nomad.com/ruby/
- go to http://raa.ruby-lang.org/search.rhtml?search=html+pars

But I'm nowhere near an expert in regexes or HTML parsing in ruby.

Devin
And yeah, I corrected your variable names for you. :P

tuyet.ctn@mscibarra.com wrote:

>Hi,
>
>How do I extract CYZ-EdEi8QBzG2f3m7prHw99 from the sessionId text
>below.  The reg expression I have is partially working.  It returns CYZ
>but I want the whole string CYZ-EdEi8QBzG2f3m7prHw99
>Your help is appreciated.  I've used RegEx coach tool but didn't come
>up with a good expression.  Thanks.
>
>irb(main):100:0> puts sessionId
><FRAMESET border=0 frameSpacing=0 rows=0,* frameBorder=0><FRAME
>border=0 name=re
>lay marginWidth=0 marginHeight=0 src="/include/blank.html"
>frameBorder="" noResi
>ze scrolling=no><FRAME border=0 name=main marginWidth=0 marginHeight=0
>src="/ara
>neae/Analysis/home?common.sessionId=CYZ-EdEi8QBzG2f3m7prHw99"
>frameBorder=0 scro
>lling=no></FRAMESET>
>=> nil
>irb(main):101:0> sessionId2 = sessionId[/sessionId=\w+/]
>=> "sessionId=CYZ"
>
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Top post! Gawrsh, how awful! What's wrong with me? I must be a total 
newb l0zerf@ce fux0r.