From: Adam Hinchliffe <adam@...>
Date: 2006-11-13T04:15:09+09:00
Subject: HTML table to matrix with WWW::Mechanize

Hi,

I am new to ruby and am trying to scrape a website table into a matrix, 
I have been playing around with WWW::Mechanize and have had some success 
getting the page, extracting the table I want and then separating the 
result by table rows.  The problem comes with then splitting it down by 
table data, I am going through each result in the array to break it by 
the <td> tag, but my code appears to have zero effect!

The code I am using is below; any help in getting the table into a 
matrix would be really appreciated.

Thanks

Adam


 require 'rubygems'
 require 'mechanize'


  agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
  agent.user_agent_alias = 'Mac Safari'
  page = 
agent.get("http://horses.sportinglife.com/Racecards/0,12495,215137,00.html").search("//table[@class='racecard_table']")
  tablerows = page.search("//tr")
  puts tablerows.length
  finalresult = Array.new
  tablerows.each do |tablerows|
     finalresult << tablerows.search("//td")
  end
  puts finalresult.length

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