From: Rolando Abarca <funkaster@...>
Date: 2007-11-20T04:00:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Scraping <table> from a website

On Nov 19, 2007, at 3:45 PM, cskilbeck wrote:

> 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.

use the right tools for the right job :-)

require 'hpricot'
require 'open-uri'

doc = Hpricot(open('http://xxx.html'))
table = doc.at('table')
puts table.inner_html

(not tested)
regards,
-- 
Rolando Abarca
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