From: merrittr Date: 2007-06-20T17:15:10+09:00 Subject: trying to use regex hi i am trying to strip out text between body tags but when run it i get: rob@rob-laptop:~/ruby$ ./html2.rb ./html2.rb:14: unknown regexp options - bdy ./html2.rb:14: unterminated string meets end of file ./html2.rb:14: parse error, unexpected tSTRING_END, expecting tSTRING_CONTENT or tREGEXP_END or tSTRING_DBEG or tSTRING_DVAR #! /usr/bin/ruby @h = File.open "test.html" @response = @h.gets text = @response.scan(/]*>(.+?)/)[0] puts text