From: Keith Raymond Date: 2011-08-22T23:53:58+09:00 Subject: Regex find everything between So here's the problem: I have a html document that is being spit out to me as a string. example: "\n\n \n\n \n \t

\n \t \n \t

My page Testing

some text here

\t\n \n" I'm using regular expression to find all the opening tags of the dom elements. , , ,

, etc... and it's working. This is via scan() method. ============================== elements = [] opening_tags = file.scan(/<\w+\s+[^>]>/) opening_tags.each do |tag| if tag.match(/class=\\"(.?)editor(.*?)\\"/) # tries to match anything with a class="editor" close = get_closing_tag(tag) # finds which DOM element it is and returns close tag # example if '
' returns '
' file.match(/#{tag}(.+)#{close}]/) { |m| elements << m } # pushes all matches to elements array ======================================= So I get the opening tags as it should

and
and I get a proper closing tag for each

and

but /#{tag}(.+)#{close}]/ returns nothing Output from Rails.logger.info +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ==== tag ==== "

" ==== close ==== "
" ==== /#{tag}(.+)#{close}]/ ==== /
(.+)<\/p>]/ ==== tag ==== "
" ==== close ==== "
" ==== /#{tag}(.+)#{close}]/ ==== /
(.+)<\/p>]/ ==== tag ==== "
" ==== close ==== "
" ==== /#{tag}(.+)#{close}]/ ==== /
(.+)<\/p>]/ ======= elements ======== [] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Any help would be appreciated. I'm at my wits end here. If there is a completely better way to do this, I'm all ears as well. Thank you in advance. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.