From: franco <flazzarino@...>
Date: 2007-12-02T01:34:59+09:00
Subject: Re: regex problem

On Nov 27, 12:00 pm, Christian von Kleist <cvonkle...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Nov 27, 2007 11:28 AM, K. R. <m...@palstek.ch> wrote:
>
>
>
> > hi @all
>
> > I would like to scan a string of html-tags. I need it to take out all
> > links (a-tags) in the string, but I become only the last one. What is
> > wrong? See the code below...
>
> > response = '<a href="hello1.html">test1</a> - <a
> > href="hello2.html">test2</a>'
> > response.scan(/<a.*href="(.*?)"/) do |line|
> >   puts line
> > end
but what if href is not the first attribute of <a/>?
>
> > thanks for helping!
> > --
> > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> Franco is right.  You could fix it by doing "a.*?href".  However, I
> would change "a.*href" to "a\s+href" since you're looking for any
> amount of whitespace after the "a" and before the "href".
>
> response = '<a href="hello1.html">test1</a> - <a href="hello2.html">test2</a>'
> response.scan(/<a\s+href="(.*?)"/s) do |line|
>  puts line
> end