From: Gavin Kistner <gavin.kistner@...>
Date: 2006-10-07T02:07:44+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Posix Pangrams (#97)

From: Jamie Macey [mailto:jamie.macey@gmail.com] 
> > (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!).

:)

I copy/pasted the rows from the table and did it like this:
puts <<ENDS.scan( /<i>([^<]+)/ ).flatten.join( ' ' )
#HTML HERE
ENDS


Actually...I can't get Hpricot to install to test your code (gem server
seems to be down) but doesn't that grab way more information than you
wanted from the table? The table headers and all columns, too?