From: Ruby Ronin <rubyronin@...>
Date: 2007-12-01T08:47:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Need to parse a HTML table into an Array/hash

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I'm kind of new too, so this might be a little sloppy by more experienced
standards, but I think this gets you partially there.

require "open-uri"
conn = open("http://finance.yahoo.com/q/op?s=AAPL&m=2008-04").read
table_data = conn.scan /<td.+?td>/
table_data_refined = []
table_data.each { |data|
data.gsub!(/<.+?>/, "")
  table_data_refined << data
  }

You probably need to tweak the regexes to isolate the specific table you
want (like plugging in "class=xxx").

I hope that helps.
On Nov 30, 2007 1:24 PM, Ernst Tanaka <ernst@tanakasite.com> wrote:

> I am new to ruby; having a lot of fun, but currently I am stuck with the
> following.
>
> I want to read this page
>
> http://finance.yahoo.com/q/op?s=AAPL&k=95.00&m=2007-12
>
> Into an array or hash.
>
> I found the gem yahoo-finance; but that does not what I need.
> I need to find the Symbol for (in this example)
> AAPL call option strike 95 Dec-07.
>
>
>
> I am able to read the page:
>  conn = open("http://finance.yahoo.com/q/op?s=AAPL&m=2008-04")
>     lines = conn.read
>
> The main question is how to I parse the table which is in the middle of
> the HTML.
>
> Any help is appreciated!!
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>

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