[#386100] Numeric#coerce docs are disaster — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>

num.coerce(numeric) =E2=86=92 array

14 messages 2011/08/02

[#386114] Documentation Improvement Proposal — Chris White <cwprogram@...>

=3D Issues =3D

24 messages 2011/08/02
[#386115] Re: Documentation Improvement Proposal — Steve Klabnik <steve@...> 2011/08/02

I reeeeeealy dislike user comments on documentation. It's one of the

[#386117] Re: Documentation Improvement Proposal — Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...> 2011/08/02

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Steve Klabnik <steve@steveklabnik.com> wrot=

[#386118] Re: Documentation Improvement Proposal — Steve Klabnik <steve@...> 2011/08/02

> What's wrong with stealing WikiPedia's procedures? The model works

[#386119] Re: Documentation Improvement Proposal — Chris White <cwprogram@...> 2011/08/02

On Aug 2, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Steve Klabnik wrote:

[#386123] Re: Documentation Improvement Proposal — Steve Klabnik <steve@...> 2011/08/02

Apologies, I've just responded to everyone in-line.

[#386231] Brainstorming ideas how to improve Ruby's documentation — Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>

The title is misleading...

42 messages 2011/08/05
[#386233] Re: Brainstorming ideas how to improve Ruby's documentation — "Fred L." <f.linard@...> 2011/08/05

Hello,

[#386235] Re: Brainstorming ideas how to improve Ruby's documentation — Alexander Litvinovsky <alexander.litvinovsky@...> 2011/08/05

What are you talking about? Ruby has a nice docs, railsapi.com for example.

[#386297] Help out with the next version of ruby-lang.org — Magnus Holm <judofyr@...>

https://github.com/rubylang/ruby-lang.org

11 messages 2011/08/07

[#386341] Exceptional Ruby and Metaprogramming Ruby has anyone picked these up? — Kevin <darkintent@...>

I'm thinking of picking up these two books and was wondering if anyone

11 messages 2011/08/09

[#386378] ruby installation — "Momodou J." <modou75alieu@...>

how to implement this in windows :

16 messages 2011/08/09

[#386401] *WHY* does this not work? — serialhex <serialhex@...>

ok, so code:

23 messages 2011/08/09
[#386403] Re: *WHY* does this not work? — "Darryl L. Pierce" <mcpierce@...> 2011/08/09

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 03:52:59AM +0900, serialhex wrote:

[#386404] Re: *WHY* does this not work? — serialhex <serialhex@...> 2011/08/09

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce@gmail.com> wrote:

[#386480] Odd regexp behavior — Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@...>

I'm running 1.9.2-p180

16 messages 2011/08/10

[#386506] Distributing Ruby program as a standalone executable (exe) for windows — Michelle Pace <michelle@...>

Hello there,

10 messages 2011/08/11

[#386539] Online tutor for Ruby — T J Pereira <tj5155@...>

I am finding it difficult to apply the RUBY program. Its because i have

18 messages 2011/08/12
[#386541] Re: Online tutor for Ruby — Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...> 2011/08/12

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 6:00 AM, T J Pereira <tj5155@tm.net.my> wrote:

[#386637] class inheritance and class constants — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>

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16 messages 2011/08/14

[#386784] Green Shoes v1.0 released — ashbb <ashbbb@...>

Hello, everyone.

15 messages 2011/08/18
[#392062] Re: Green Shoes v1.0 released — Barry Yu <yubarry@...> 2012/01/09

why do I get this error?

[#386796] Searching in a directory — Yu Yu <htwoo@...>

Hello,

21 messages 2011/08/18

[#386893] Gritty Details of super() — luke gruber <luke.gru@...>

Hey guys,

18 messages 2011/08/21

[#386900] Possble bug in Ruby parser (Fixnum#times within "case" statement) — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...>

Hi, I cannot find an explanation for the following issue so I think it's a =

15 messages 2011/08/21
[#386901] Re: Possble bug in Ruby parser (Fixnum#times within "case" statement) — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...> 2011/08/21

[#386903] Re: Possble bug in Ruby parser (Fixnum#times within "case" statement) — Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@...> 2011/08/21

2011/8/22 Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com>:

[#386920] New to Ruby some problems — jack jones <shehio_22@...>

I am new to Ruby, My mother tongue is C++ .. I have too many problems I

21 messages 2011/08/22

[#386949] Want to get involved with this doc stuff? I'm making it even easier — Steve Klabnik <steve@...>

Hey guys-

9 messages 2011/08/22

[#387058] How the access the values of this result — QAS WM <qaiserwali@...>

I am getting the following as a result of a script I run.

11 messages 2011/08/26

[#387070] overloading methods question please? — jack jones <shehio_22@...>

def do_something(a as Array)

11 messages 2011/08/26

[#387138] String#split resets regex captures variables (Ruby 1.8.7) — Olivier Lance <bestiol@...>

Hi,

10 messages 2011/08/29

[#387196] SAMSUNG to produce "Ruby on Rails in Silicon" System on a Chip — Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>

(public draft)

9 messages 2011/08/31

[#387197] Prepend a character to a string in ruby — ruby rails <rubyonrails4me@...>

Hi,

10 messages 2011/08/31

[#387212] GUI programming — Samuel Mensah <sasogeek@...>

Is ruby GUI programming something that will come along as I study ruby

19 messages 2011/08/31
[#387230] Re: GUI programming — Alexey Petrushin <axyd80@...> 2011/08/31

I believe right now it's better to stay with console, there's no Ruby

Re: Regex find everything between

From: John-John Tedro <johnjohn.tedro@...>
Date: 2011-08-22 15:03:01 UTC
List: ruby-talk #386926
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Keith Raymond <raymondke99@gmail.com>wrote:

> So here's the problem:
>
> I have a html document that is being spit out to me as a string.
>
> example: "<!doctype html>\n<html lang=\"en\">\n  <head>\n</head>\n
> <body>\n  \t<header>\n  \t  <hgroup>\n  \t    <h1 class=\"my-class\">My
> page Testing</h1>\n<p class=\"my-class icon\">some text here</p>
> \t<footer>\n  \t  <p class=\"fred my-class\">This is my footer
> info</p>\n  \t</footer>\n  </body>\n</html>"
>
> I'm using regular expression to find all the opening tags of the dom
> elements.  <html lang=\"en\">, <head>, <body>, <h1 class=\"my-class\">,
> 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 '<p class="my-class">' returns '</p>'
>    file.match(/#{tag}(.+)#{close}]/) { |m| elements << m }
>      # pushes all matches to elements array
>
> =======================================
>
> So I get the opening tags as it should
>  <h1 class=\my-class\"> and <p class=\"fred my-class\">
> and I get a proper closing tag for each
>  </h1> and </p>
> but /#{tag}(.+)#{close}]/ returns nothing
>
> Output from Rails.logger.info
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> ==== tag ====
> "<h1 class=\"my-class\">"
> ==== close ====
> "</p>"
> ==== /#{tag}(.+)#{close}]/ ====
> /<p class="my-class">(.+)<\/p>]/
> ==== tag ====
> "<p class=\"my-class icon\">"
> ==== close ====
> "</p>"
> ==== /#{tag}(.+)#{close}]/ ====
> /<p class="my-class icon">(.+)<\/p>]/
> ==== tag ====
> "<p class=\"fred my-class\">"
> ==== close ====
> "</p>"
> ==== /#{tag}(.+)#{close}]/ ====
> /<p class="fred my-class">(.+)<\/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/.
>
>
Try out nokogiri: https://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri

After you've let it parse your document you can use css3 or xpath selectors
to find what you are looking for.

Letting someone else do all the dirty work is a good idea for potentially
dirty html.

-- John-John Tedro

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