From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-03-01T04:28:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Need a regex searching html code

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Jari Williamsson
<jari.williamsson@mailbox.swipnet.se> wrote:
>
> Mark Thomas wrote:
>  > All the regex solutions provided will break with the following
>  > perfectly valid HTML:
>  >
>  > <div class="info">
>  > <h5 >Tagline:</h5>
>  > Yippee Ki Yay Mo - John 6:27
>  > </div>
>  >
>  > This is one of many reasons it is a BAD idea to use regexes to parse
>  > HTML. Regular expressions are simply not the right tool for the job.
>
>  Sorry if I'm missing the point:
>  ---
>  the_text = %q{
>
> <div class="info">
>  <h5 >Tagline:</h5>
>  Yippee Ki Yay Mo - John 6:27
>  </div>
>  }
>
>  the_text.each_line do |line|
>     puts "Within DIV tags: #{line}" if (line=~/<div/)..(line=~/<\/div/)
>     puts "Within H5 tags: #{line}" if (line=~/<h5/)..(line=~/<\/h5/)
>  end
>  ---
>
>  Result:
>  Within DIV tags: <div class="info">
>  Within DIV tags: <h5 >Tagline:</h5>
>  Within H5 tags: <h5 >Tagline:</h5>
>  Within DIV tags: Yippee Ki Yay Mo - John 6:27
>  Within DIV tags: </div>

What if you have a div inside a div?  Although, the OP said "any"
legitimate html inside a div, there's part of me that begs the
question: which div?

Todd