From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2007-11-20T04:15:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Scraping <table> from a website

On Nov 19, 12:41 pm, cskilbeck <charlieskilb...@gmail.com> 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.

inner = page[ %r{<table.*?>(.*?)</table>}mi, 1]