From: "Jean-François Trân" <jftran@...>
Date: 2008-01-19T15:41:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Challenge: Extract episode descriptions.

2008/1/19, Stedwick <philip.brocoum@gmail.com>:

> If any of you feel up to the challenge, see if you can streamline my
> code below, or write better code yourself. I can't help but think that
> there's an easier way to do this!
>
> # open html file
> f = File.read("episode_guide.html")
>
> # keep track of the number of descriptions found
> count = 0
>
> # each description is enclosed in a multiline <p> </p> tag
> f.scan(/<p>.*?<\/p>/m) do |match|

[...]

You should take a look at Hpricot gem to make the
html scraping easier.

    -- Jean-François.