From: GianFranco Bozzetti <gf.bozzetti@...>
Date: 2010-10-20T00:45:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Find block in a long string

Does this snippet solve your need?

# Given the string:
str="&lt;p&gt;\n  &lt;strong&gt;Location:&lt;/strong&gt; Columbus,
Ohio\n&lt;/p&gt;\n\n&lt;"
# remove unwanted chars with:
str1=str.gsub(/[&\/;\n]+|lt|gt|strong|p/im,' ').strip.squeeze(' ')
# and obtain;
puts "str1: #{str1}" #=>   Location: Columbus, Ohio
# if you wish, remove Location: and obtain;
str2 = str1.gsub(/Location:\s+/i,'')
puts "str2: #{str2}" #=>  Columbus, Ohio

HTH gfb

"Greg Ma" <gregorylepacha@msn.com> wrote in message 
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> Steel Steel wrote in post #955407:
>> 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
>
> I do use a rss parser. The rss parser was just here to explain what I am
> doing, but it has no relation with my issue.
>
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