From: Tim Hunter <Tim.Hunter@...>
Date: 2003-07-12T03:36:23+09:00
Subject: Re: extracting text

Here's one answer to your question. Watch out, almost any change to
the input will break it.

irb(main):012:0> s = "<TD class=12>Some text</TD>"
"<TD class=12>Some text</TD>"
irb(main):013:0> m = %r{<TD [^>]+>([^<]+)</TD>}.match(s)
#<MatchData:0x276f978>
irb(main):014:0> p m[1]
"Some text"
nil
irb(main):015:0>

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 07:46:44 -0400, "Dan" <falseflyboy@yahoo.comNONO>
wrote:

>I have a HTML table which I would like to extract text inside a <TD>. For an
>example
><TD class=12>Some text</TD>
>
>I can write a code that detects the beginning of TD...
>print line ~= "<TD class12>"
>
>But how do I make it stop at </TD>. In the code above, I just want to print
>"Some text"
>
>thanks
>