From: Tom Arra <turtleman14789@...>
Date: 2008-03-02T03:06:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Scan HTML

William James wrote:
> On Mar 1, 7:56 am, Tom Arra <turtleman14...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> require 'net/http'
>> > So far I think this is closest to what I am looking for. I need to go to
>>
>> I want to pull just the 7.0.0.3.4 and none of the words. I am sure this
>> is going to have to deal with more regular expressions but I never
>> really understood how to use them well.
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> 
> E:\>irb --prompt xmp
> s = " <h3>blah blah 7.0.0.3.4 blah</h3>"
>     ==>" <h3>blah blah 7.0.0.3.4 blah</h3>"
> # Find a substring composed of numerals and dots that is
> # at least 3 characters long.
> s[ /[\d.]{3,}/ ]
>     ==>"7.0.0.3.4"

Your really good at this stuff! One thing i noticed is that it works 
perfectly for the regular domain but as soon as I put a full URL into 
the Net::HTTP.new command it starts to throw errors. Any ideas.
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