From: nikolaus.hammerschmidt@... (Nikolaus Hammerschmidt) Date: 2002-12-02T02:23:48+09:00 Subject: Problem with gsub Hi: I'm using Ruby 1.6.7 MSWin32 on Win98 and I'm having a little problem with gsub or could it be a known or unknown bug in Ruby? I'm downloading a webpage and trying to simplify it for extracting data with gsub. Example website schema: .... .... ...... ....
info A1info B1
info Axinfo Bx
Time is now: ...... Message Board ... I'm using this following code to remove unuseful information from the string with the webpage content: cont.gsub!(/(\n|\r|\t|\ \;)/, "") cont.gsub!(//i, "") cont.gsub!(//i, "") cont.gsub!(//i, "") cont.gsub!(//i, " ....
") It's quite effective but at the expected end of the corrected string, it would be the first tag "", the rest of the original string has survivied. .... .... ...... ....
info A1info B1
info Axinfo Bx
Time is now: ...... Message Board ... Message Board ... href=...
info Axinfo Bx
Time is now: ...... Message Board ... Thanks in advance, Nikolaus Hammerschmit