From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2005-10-25T19:02:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple regex question


Todd wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Sorry to waste your time with this, but I'm new to regular expressions.
>  I, simply want to grab the text between two html tags:
>
> various characters and whitespace <span id="title">Dog Eggs</title>
> various characters and whitespace
>
> I want a regex that notices the "title" id and grabs Dog Eggs for me.
> I have one that works, but it's really kludgey.
>
> Thanks,
> Todd

DATA.read.scan( /id="title">(.*?)</m ) { |s|
  puts s
}

__END__
characters and whitespace <span id="title">Platypus Eggs</title>
various characters and whitespace 
<span id="title">Bird
Teeth</title>