From: Peter Szinek <peter@...>
Date: 2007-04-19T04:28:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Hpricot getting a table

lrlebron@gmail.com wrote:
> I am currently trying to scrape some data from the following web page
> 
> I am using some hpricot code that looks like this
>  @doc = Hpricot(open(strLink))
> 
>  @doc.search("/html/body/table[5]/tr/td[2]/div[3]/table/tr/td/div[1]/
> table") do |data|
>         puts data
>  end
> 
> At this point data contains html that looks like this
> 
> <table><tr><td>Stuff</td></tr><tr><td>Stuff</td></tr></table>
> <table><tr><td>Stuff</td></tr><tr><td>Stuff</td></tr></table>
> <table><tr><td>Stuff</td></tr><tr><td>Stuff</td></tr></table>
> <table><tr><td>Stuff</td></tr><tr><td>Stuff</td></tr></table>
> 
> More stuff continues ......
> 
> I want capture each of these four tables individually for further
> processing. I have tried a variety of methods but nothing seems to
> work.

What are you trying to do exactly? What should be the result?
Could you please provide some real data, because these 'stuff' do not 
make too much sense :-)


Thanks,
Peter
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