From: Sylvain Tenier Date: 2006-12-19T16:47:57+09:00 Subject: Re: Hpricot and Regular expression -- Rien ne peut jamais marcher si l'on songe � tout ce qu'il faut pour que �a marche. -- Daniel Pennac here is a way (I uess not optimal, I'm really new here) #!/usr/bin/ruby require 'hpricot' html = < Toon Zone News1 Toon Zone News2 Toon Zone News3 Toon Zone News3 EOS doc = Hpricot(html) result=[] #get each node doc.search("//a").each do |chaque| #keep only those who have the correct value for attribute as set by the regexp result << chaque.at("//strong").inner_html if chaque.get_attribute("href") =~ /f=13?/ end Hope this helps Sylvain Selon Dhanasekaran Vivekanandhan : > Hi All, > I have a html fragment like the following > > Toon Zone News1 > Toon Zone News2 > Toon Zone News3 > Toon Zone News3 > > I want to match only the first three anchor tags, I dont want to get the > last one since the href f parameter is abcd.it is not an integer. I want > to get only if the request parameter is integer.i.e. the first three > anchor tags. > > I have following code > > doc = Hpricot(open("http://0.0.0.0:3000/dh/list")) > fun = > doc.search("//a[@href='forumdisplay.php?f=131']//strong").inner_html > puts fun > > but it will fetch the first anchor tag content only.so I think I need to > use some regular expression to match 131, 132, 133 (f parameter) values. > I dont know how to do. > any help would be appreciated. > thanks, > dhanasekaran > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. >