From: Srijayanth Sridhar <srijayanth@...>
Date: 2008-07-25T16:44:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp Ruby selection

Any specific reason you can't use hpricot or other HTML parsers?

Jayanth

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:09 PM, touffik@gmail.com <touffik@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I'm trying to code a ruby script that select the content of a HTML
> table in a HTML page.
> I used rubular to test my regexp syntax which is
> / <td class="TabIntCenContenuto"[^>]*>(.*)&nbsp; /
> with rubular the result of my expression is :
> Result 1
>   1. 12345678
> Result 2
>   1. SAN FRANCESCO DA PAOLA
> Result 3
>   1. Via San Francesco Da Paola, 10
> Result 4
>   1. 10123
> Result 5
>   1. TORINO
> etc....
> But with my script :
>
> File.open('D:/testt/1.txt', 'r') do |filein|
>
>  while line = filein.gets
>  p line if line =~  /<td class="TabIntCenContenuto"[^>]*>/ .. line
> =~ /\/A&nbsp;/
>  end
>  fileout.puts p
>  end
> end
>
> I got this result
> "</td><td class=\"TabIntCenContenuto\">12345678&nbsp;\n"
> "</td><td class=\"TabIntCenContenuto\">SAN FRANCESCO DA PAOLA&nbsp;</
> td>\n"
> "<td class=\"TabIntCenContenuto\">Via San Francesco Da Paola,
> 10&nbsp;</td>\n"
> "<td class=\"TabIntCenContenuto\">10123&nbsp;</td>\n"
> "<td class=\"TabIntCenContenuto\" align=\"left\">TORINO&nbsp;</td>\n"
>
> I thought the .. between 2 "line =~" was like (...) in rubular which
> let catch the content ??
> Moreover I would like to transform this html code in XML. But I can"t
> find an idea how to transform these HTML line in XML.
> <root>
> <number>12345678</number>
> But there is no attribut 'name' or wathever in the <td> so making and
> match/replace would be difficult ?
> ..
>
> So, if someone can help me I would be very grateful.
> Nice day ;)
>
>