From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2009-12-16T01:10:23+09:00
Subject: Re: regexp to pars a HTML tag value

Mehdi Karamnejad wrote:
> I want to replace the value inside a HTML tag with another value using
> gsub function and regexp,what is the best regexp for this purpose?
> puts MyStr.gsub(/"What Should Be the Regex?"/, "NewValue")
> example:
>  <span id="MySpan" class="current>VALUE</span>
> above VALUE is what I want to replace with another value

If you expect any complexity at all in the structure of the HTML, then 
regexes will be inadequate and you'll need to use a parser such as 
Nokogiri.


Best,
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