From: cskilbeck <charlieskilbeck@...>
Date: 2007-11-20T03:45:00+09:00
Subject: Scraping <table> from a website

Hi,

I need to extract everything between <table> and </table> on a website
(there's only one table on the page. So far I have:

require 'open-uri'
page = open('http://xxx.html').read
page.gsub!(/\n/,"")
page.gsub!(/\r/,"")
inner = page.scan(%r{.*<table.*>(.*)</table>.*}m)
print inner

but inner is empty - any ideas?

If I substitute line 2 with

page = '123<table>456</table>789

I get inner = 456, which is correct.