From: Morton Goldberg Date: 2006-10-14T03:28:37+09:00 Subject: Re: Problem with a regular expression On Oct 13, 2006, at 1:55 PM, charles.nadeau@gmail.com wrote: > require 'net/http' > begin > hdoc = > Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse('http://finance.yahoo.com/lookup? > s=Dupont&t=S&m=US')) > > re = /(.*)/ > if hdoc =~ re > print "#{$&}\n" > else > print "Nothing\n" > end > end Whrn I substitute '\/TD' for '/TD' and make the regex case insensitive, I get a match. See below:


! /usr/bin/env ruby -w
require 'net/http'
hdoc = Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse('http://finance.yahoo.com/lookup? 
s=Dupont&t=S&m=US'))
re = /(.*)<\/TD>/i ### note changes
if hdoc =~ re
    puts "#{$&}\n"
else
    puts "Nothing\n"
end

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Regards, Morton

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