From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2009-05-12T01:05:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp simple question

Arun Kumar wrote:

>   I'm using the following regexp to capture a particular string from a
> japanese website content.
>
> /<ul id="ownerProfile" class="owner">.*?<li>([^<]*?)<\/li>/m

Parsing HTML with Regexp makes certain baby dieties cry.

Use Nokogiri, with an XPath of '/ul[ @id = "ownerProfile" and @class = 
"owner" ]'. Then pull out the .text and you are done!

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  Phlip