Thank Matt. I had to make slight modifications to get it to work for
me:
(doc/"div#profile_stats/p").inner_text.match(/Last Visit: (\w+)/)[1]
Nevertheless thanks for help and i owe you a beer. hopefully at the
next meeting.
On Jan 16, 12:28 pm, "Matt Aimonetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> good point Brian.
>
> To explain really quickly what I did here is the hpricot line:
>
> (doc/"div#profile_stats/p/p").inner_text.match(/^Last Visit: (\w+)/)[1]
>
> I search for a div with id profile_stats, then inside it, I look for a <p>,
> inside it I look for another <p>, extract the inner text and apply a simple
> regexp to extract the text you want.
>
> Hpricot is awesome ;)
>
> -Matt
>
> On 1/16/08, Brian Chapados <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > > I've gotten as far as loading the file with:
>
> > > doc = Hpricot(open("some_page.html"))
>
> > > but its not obvious what to do from there. Appreciate any help
> > > speeding up my learning curve.
>
> > The [showcase] and [tutorials] on the [Hpricot wiki] are excellent
> > resources if you want to understand how Matt came up that code.
>
> > [Hpricot wiki]:http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/wiki
> > [showcase]:
> >http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/wiki/AnHpricotShowcase
> > [tutorials]:
> >http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/wiki/HpricotTutorials
>
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