From: "Berger, Daniel" <djberge@...>
Date: 2003-07-12T04:51:22+09:00
Subject: Re: extracting text



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Hunter [mailto:Tim.Hunter@sas.com] 
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 12:36 PM
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> 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
> >

I suspect you'll want to use a parser, instead of regular expressions, to
parse HTML.  There's an html-parser module on the RAA, though I haven't used
it myself.

Regards,

Dan