From: Dave Hoefler <dhoefler@...>
Date: 2007-02-13T07:08:26+09:00
Subject: Re: What's the best way of parsing this string?

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Hi Jason,

Thanks for the suggestion. Why would REXML be a good use though?

-Dave

On 2/12/07, Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well, maybe you can assume valid XML and parse the page with REXML. If
> it's
> not valid XML, well you can regex through for (off-the-cuff, probably
> wrong)
> /<param.*value="(.*)"/ and use the result. Someone more knowledgable in
> Regexps can help you out if it comes to this.
>
> Jason
>
> On 2/12/07, Dave Hoefler <dhoefler@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I have a question about string search and replacement. Let's say I have
> > this
> > string that contains 2 <object> links for embedding youtube videos
> amongst
> > some other random text.
> >
> > string = "We've got some junk text here" +
> >          "<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\"
> > value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/qqsyXdj_p_I\"></param>" +
> >          "<param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"></param><embed
> > src=\"
> > http://www.youtube.com/v/qqsyXdj_p_I\"
> > type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\"" +
> >          "wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\"
> > height=\"350\"></embed></object>" +
> >          "And we've got some more junk text right here" +
> >          "<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\"
> > value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/yYqACgndOQA\"></param>" +
> >          "<param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"></param><embed
> > src=\"
> > http://www.youtube.com/v/yYqACgndOQA\"
> > type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\"" +
> >          "wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\"
> > height=\"350\"></embed></object>" +
> >          "more garbage text here"
> >
> > I'd like to get the value of the 'value' attributes ("
> > http://www.youtube.com/v/qqsyXdj_p_I" and "
> > http://www.youtube.com/v/yYqACgndOQA" respectively) and convert the
> string
> > into the following:
> >
> > We've got some junk text here
> > <div id="youtube_qqsyXdj_p_I"></div>
> > <script type="text/javascript">
> >     var so = new SWFObject("http://www.youtube.com/v/qqsyXdj_p_I",
> > "qqsyXdj_p_I", "425", "350", "6","","","","","");
> >     so.write("youtube_qqsyXdj_p_I");
> > </script>
> > And we've got some more junk text right here
> > <div id="youtube_yYqACgndOQA"></div>
> > <script type="text/javascript">
> >     var so = new SWFObject("http://www.youtube.com/v/yYqACgndOQA",
> > "yYqACgndOQA", "425", "350", "6","","","","","");
> >     so.write("youtube_yYqACgndOQA");
> > </script>
> > more garbage text here
> >
> >
> > What would be the best library to use for parsing and replacing certain
> > values in a string? I've done simple .gsub'ing before, but this seems to
> > be
> > a little more complicated ;-)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave Hoefler
> >
>

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