From: Junkone Date: 2008-08-13T03:02:32+09:00 Subject: extract value of the hpricot elem url="http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/shortinterests.aspx? symbol=FRE&selected=FRE" doc=open(url) {|f| Hpricot(f)} doc.search("//table[@class='dataGrid']") rqTable=doc.search("//table[@class='dataGrid']") rqTable.search('tr').each{|tr| tdArray=tr.search('td') dataArray=Array.new #tr.search('td').each{|td| # puts td.inner_text # } puts tdArray[0].class,tdArray[1].to_s,tdArray[2] puts "end" } how do i get the text value of the tdArray[0] which is internally a Hpricot::Elem