From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-10-06T14:50:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Stripping unwanted html

Wild Al wrote:

/ ...

> In the while loop, how do you access the html tag.  If I could access
> the html tags, I could then decide if I wanted to keep the tag or not.

Why not create your own method? This should give you some ideas:

#!/usr/bin/ruby -w 

data = File.read("/path/page.html")

data.scan(/<(\w+?)>/) { |tag|
  puts tag
}

This puts out the tag name extracted from each HTML tag in the page.

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Paul Lutus
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