From: Steel Steel <angel_steel@...>
Date: 2010-10-19T22:08:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Find block in a long string

Greg Ma wrote in post #955398:
> 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

Ruby has an RSS parser isn't it? Why not use it?

http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/RSS.html
http://www.cozmixng.org/~rwiki/?cmd=view;name=RSS+Parser%3A%3ATutorial.en

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