From: dblack@...
Date: 2003-05-11T09:06:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Extracting text from HTML

Hi --

On Sun, 11 May 2003, Robo wrote:

> > 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.

That's why Kent told you to watch out for regex 'greed' :-)

If you change .* to .*? you should be in business.

> channelBlocks.each do |s|
>   puts s
> end

Much simpler way to print an array:

  puts channelBlocks

or

  puts channel_blocks

(if you want to do your bit to preserve classic Ruby style :-)


David

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