From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2008-12-12T20:57:40+09:00
Subject: Re: how do I extract the ID name of a Div and its content?

Hans Wurst wrote:
> but I tried for 3hours and don`t know how :-(

So, what approach or approaches did you try? What was the solution that 
got closest to what you were trying, and what did it output?

There are a whole host of ways you might be approaching this. For 
example, you might be using the Hpricot (HTML parsing) library, or REXML 
(XML parsing), or simple regular expression matching.

If all you want is the bits between 'single quotes' then a regular 
expression match is probably easiest. Try using String#scan, and give it 
a regular expression which matches a single quote followed by any number 
of non-single-quote characters followed by a single quote.

Or you could use use String#split("'") and keep only the odd-numbered 
elements of the returned array.

I'm sure if you post your actual code and what it does, someone will 
help you tweak it to work.
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