From: spam_monkey <"sidhellfire(spam_monkey)"@...2.pl>
Date: 2006-03-01T19:23:36+09:00
Subject: [Newbie] Getting data from html-ish like crap.

Hi,
I wanted to learn something, and choosed ruby, 
since it looked awesome, and can't say it isn't. 
I am not expierienced programmer (tried some 
Pascal, then PHP), and decided to do something 
small, but usefull. Let's get straight into the 
problem.

At the url:
https://www.knightonlineworld.com/index.php?pg=rankings&sub=2&radServer=1&clanid=12199
I've got something similar to html (at least 
it's not table based, but still damn ugly code 
there) with online statistics.

I don't want to parse that one, i just want to 
'crop that crap' and retrive informations from 
data inside one element a div with an 
id="bleet". There are tables in there, but seems 
impossible to navigate there.

I am really suck at strings :(

<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<td align="center" >Quatrina</td> # i want this
<td align="center" >52</td>       #
<td align="center" >Shaman</td>   #
<td align="center" >563</td>      # and this one
</tr> # preferable everything :P

I would want to hash that data, to have it 
usefull in future (aiming a rails app in 
future), but selecting two columns in each row, 
located in the last table in the id'ed element 
placed in not-well-made document looks 
impossible for me. I don't even know where to 
start, and it's FAR away from the things i 
wanted to do (counting numbers*, assinging 
additional data).


All i've done already is getting the document:

> require 'uri'
> require 'net/http'
> 
> trg = "https://www.knightonlineworld.com/index.php?pg=rankings&sub=2&radServer=1&clanid=12199"
> puts 'processing' + cel + " :\n" 
> 
> r = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(trg).host, URI.parse(trg).path)
> 
> puts r.body


Thanks for reading.

*/Notice it does count "Loyality" wrong/