From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby.brian@...>
Date: 2005-10-25T20:49:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple regex question

On 25/10/05, Todd <toddkennethbenson@yahoo.com> 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
>

irb(main):001:0> text = %(<span id="title">Dog Eggs</title>)
=> "<span id=\"title\">Dog Eggs</title>"
irb(main):002:0> text[%r(<span id="title">(.*?)</title>), 1]
=> "Dog Eggs"

I really like this interface.

regards,

Brian

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