Regexp simple question

[Arun Kumar]

Hi,
I'm using the following regexp to capture a particular string from a
japanese website content.

/<ul id="ownerProfile" class="owner">.*?<li>([^<]*?)<\/li>/m

The following is the match result.

女性 /

Is there a way I can remove the slash('/') from my result by modifying
the above regular expression.


N. B. gsub can be used but I want to know whether there it can be
achieved by modifying the above regexp

Please help.

Thanks
Arun

 

[7stud --]

In words, describe what just the regex part does.

 

[Srijayanth Sridhar]

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Your boss doesn't like gsub?

Try

/<ul id="ownerProfile" class="owner">.*?<li>([^<\/]*?)<\/li>/m


That should work, but it won't work for a case where you have / separating
something in the inner text.

Jayanth

 

[7stud --]

In words, describe what just the regex part does.

I mean the part between the <li> tags.

 

[Phlip]

I'm using the following regexp to capture a particular string from a
japanese website content.

/<ul id="ownerProfile" class="owner">.*?<li>([^<]*?)<\/li>/m

Parsing HTML with Regexp makes certain baby dieties cry.

Use Nokogiri, with an XPath of '/ul[ @id = "ownerProfile" and @class =
"owner" ]'. Then pull out the .text and you are done!

 

[Srijayanth Sridhar]

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That bugle's been blown to death mate.

Jayanth

I'm using the following regexp to capture a particular string from a
japanese website content.

/<ul id="ownerProfile" class="owner">.*?<li>([^<]*?)<\/li>/m

Parsing HTML with Regexp makes certain baby dieties cry.

Use Nokogiri, with an XPath of '/ul[ @id = "ownerProfile" and @class =
"owner" ]'. Then pull out the .text and you are done!