You don't want to fall into the rat hole of parsing HTML with
regexes.  You need a parsing library like hpricot or similar.

http://wiki.github.com/why/hpricot

good luck!
Tim

On Apr 29, 11:09 am, Gavin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm having a bit of trouble trying to acheive something, maybe someone
> can help?
>
> I have a model Article, which has an attribute 'body'
>
> The body is a text column in which people can add text and HTML.
>
> I'd like to edit certain properties of some of the HTML tags, for
> example, converting all spaces inside <code> </code> tags to &nbsp;
>
> I presume using a reg expression is the best way to achieve this, I'm
> just not sure of how to word an expression to scan for only characters
> within the html tags.
>
> any ideas?
>
> Ta
>
> Gavin
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