From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-03-08T02:46:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there link extractor or similar html processing libs for Ruby

On Mar 7, 2006, at 11:38 AM, Marcin Miel��y��ski wrote:

> Desireco wrote:
>> Hi,
>> in cool Perl there are a bunch of libraries that process html  
>> files and
>> help you when you need to extract info. I remember hearing something
>> for Ruby as well, if someone had experience with this, it would  
>> help me
>> if he could point me in right direction. Basically I need to extract
>> links and info from html pages.
>> Thanks. Zeljko Dakic http://www.dakic.com
>
> You meant something like this ? (quite dirty but works)
>
> puts open("some.html").read.scan(/<a href="?(.+?)"?>/)

No, it doesn't, trust me.  ;)  Toss a simple "\n" in there and you're  
sunk:

<a
  href="whatever">

Parsing HTML is hard and you don't want to use regular expressions to  
do it.

James Edward Gray II