From: Paul <tester.paul@...>
Date: 2010-10-09T06:10:22+09:00
Subject: Re: How can I count number of elements in an HTML page

On Oct 5, 9:33 pm, Steel Steel <angel_st...@ymail.com> wrote:
> > I can find the section I want with a regex but I don't know how to
> > iterate through the string looking for particular elements.  I was
> > thinking about taking the section I'm interested in and saving it as
> > an array and then iterating through each array element (html line)
> > that way, but I thought there might be a quicker way to do it.
>
> $html.scan(%r{<div.*first section.*</div>}m).to_s.scan(/<li>/).size

Thanks Steel.  This worked fine.  I just needed to make it a lazy
search with .*?

I've got nothing against Nokogiri or the other solutions but I was
hoping for a solution like this that just uses the core libraries for
portability.

Cheers!  Paul.