From: Jamie Macey <jamie.macey@...>
Date: 2006-10-07T01:50:48+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Posix Pangrams (#97)

On 10/6/06, Gavin Kistner <gavin.kistner@anark.com> wrote:
> > This quiz extends the idea to the posix utilities[1]
> [snip]
> > [1] http://www.unix.org/version3/apis/cu.html has a complete list
>
> Assuming it's not a spoiler, following is the contents of the first
> column of the table at that URL. (There's no joy in trying to
> parse/string HTML.)

Sure there is.

require 'rubygems'; require 'hpricot'; require 'open-uri'
doc = Hpricot(open('http://www.unix.org/version3/apis/cu.html'))
puts (doc/"p.tent/i").map{|i|i.inner_html}

Hpricot makes HTML scraping fun again (no, really!).

Thanks Why!

- Jamie