From: Joe <qbproger@...>
Date: 2008-01-06T11:15:25+09:00
Subject: Re: html parser with regex, how to solve?

try this:

ele.text.sub('$', '')

Joe

On Jan 5, 2008 8:34 PM, Luiz Vitor Martinez Cardoso <grabber@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks much! This really works ;)
>
> Now i`m having a new problem (very simple), the output is $1999,00, how i
> can remove a $? I will need convert this to a float number ;)
>
> Regards,
> Luiz Vitor Martinez Cardoso.
>
>
> On Jan 5, 2008 11:10 PM, s.ross <cwdinfo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Don't use the regex. Let hpricot do what it's good at:
> >
> > $ irb
> >  >> require 'rubygems'
> >  >> require 'hpricot'
> >  >> html = '<h3 class="zmp">149.00</h3>'
> >  >> doc = Hpricot.parse(html)
> >  >> ele = doc.search('h3.zmp')
> >  >> puts ele.text
> > => 149.00
> >
> > In your code, your @content will be searchable the same way. Hpricot
> > will give you a collection of all h3's with class 'zmp'.
> >
> > http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/doc/hpricot/
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> >
> > On Jan 5, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Luiz Vitor Martinez Cardoso wrote:
> >
> > > Yeah,
> > >
> > > I`m trying to develop a simple application using ruby (when this
> > > works i
> > > will pass to rails). I need get the source code from a URL, and find
> > > for
> > > this string:
> > >
> > > <h3 class="zmp">$299.99</h3>
> > >
> > > wow, but i need search for not only 149.00, but for all possible
> > > numbers, my
> > > friend suggest this:
> > >
> > > <h3 class="zmp">*$\d+\.\d{2}.*</h3>
> > >
> > > i think this works! but i need other thing... look my code:
> > >
> > > #!/usr/bin/ruby
> > >
> > > require 'hpricot'
> > > require 'open-uri'
> > >
> > > @content = Hpricot(open("
> > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16855101066"))
> > >
> > > now how i can find for <h3 class="zmp">*$\d+\.\d{2}.*</h3> ?
> > >
> > > @content.search("<h3 class="zmp">*$\d+\.\d{2}.*</h3>") is broken ;(
> > >
> > > how i can solved this?
> > >
> > >
> > > thanks for you attention,
> > > Luiz Vitor Martinez Cardoso.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > > Luiz Vitor Martinez Cardoso [Grabber].
> > > (11) 8187-8662
> > >
> > > rubz.org - engineer student at maua.br
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Luiz Vitor Martinez Cardoso [Grabber].
> (11) 8187-8662
>
> rubz.org - engineer student at maua.br
>