From: Robo <robo@...>
Date: 2003-05-11T08:49:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Extracting text from HTML

> Arg, line wrapping was too aggressive there...
>
> channelBlocks = Regexp.new(
> '<table width="132" border="0" cellpadding="0" ' +
> 'cellspacing="0">(.*)</table>',
> Regexp::MULTILINE
> )

Thanks, just a slight problem, I want it to match from the start of the
<table width="132" ... > tag to the next </table> tag, but I think Ruby
matched it with the last </table> tag in the file.

In the file, there're 3 of these tables with width 132, I want to extract
those three tables. This is what I have so far:

file = File.new('your_tv_guide.txt', 'r')
s = file.read
file.close

#puts s
regex = Regexp.new(
  '<table width="132" border="0" cellpadding="0"
cellspacing="0">(.*)</table>',
  Regexp::MULTILINE
)

channelBlocks = s.scan(regex)

channelBlocks.each do |s|
  puts s
end