From: Greg Ma <gregorylepacha@...>
Date: 2010-10-19T21:27:56+09:00
Subject: Find block in a long string

Hi,

I am parsing a rss feed and i am try to extract a specific element from
an attribute.

The attribute looks like this, and I would like to extract the location
from it.
"&lt;p&gt;\n  &lt;strong&gt;Location:&lt;/strong&gt; Columbus,
Ohio\n&lt;/p&gt;\n\n&lt;"

Here is the horrible code I've done, could you help me to make it
cleaner :)

      description.split("\n").each do |ugly|
        next unless ugly.include?("Location")
        location = ugly.split("\n")[1].split("gt;").last
      end

Greg

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