From: Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2006-09-22T20:26:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Search string in HTML file

On 9/22/06, Jean Verger <jean.verger@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm looking the way of searching an string in a HTML file  given the URL.
>
> The parameter will be "<span>value</span>" ... it has to be that
> format, exactly.
>
> I'm trying with Hpricot (http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot)
> which is very powerfull  ... but it searches for elements, so i only
> can pass the value of the SPAN .. no the whole string.
>
> anyway of searching for an string in a html file given the URL?
>
> thanks,
>
> Jean

Will this do it? (I have not run it, so there may be errors.)

require 'open-uri'

uri = URI.parse('http://whatever')
data = uri.read
data.scan('<sub>whatever</sub>')