From: Shadowfirebird <shadowfirebird@...>
Date: 2008-07-25T16:49:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp Ruby selection

I'll second that.  Hpricot is really quite remarkable.  It'll almost
certainly save you days and days of pain.  Unless you are doing this
for fun / learning, of course.

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Srijayanth Sridhar
<srijayanth@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ;)
>>
>>
>
>



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