Extract value of the hpricot elem

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url="http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/shortinterests.aspx?
symbol=FRE&selected=FRE"
doc=open(url) {|f| Hpricot(f)}
doc.search("//table[@class='dataGrid']")
rqTable=doc.search("//table[@class='dataGrid']")
rqTable.search('tr').each{|tr|

tdArray=tr.search('td')

  dataArray=Array.new
  #tr.search('td').each{|td|
  # puts td.inner_text
  # }

  puts tdArray[0].class,tdArray[1].to_s,tdArray[2]
  puts "end"
}

how do i get the text value of the tdArray[0] which is internally a
Hpricot::Elem

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It's often easier to simply go directly to what you want with XPath.
I'm not sure exactly what you want to extract, but try this:

require 'open-uri'
url="http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/shortinterests.aspx?
symbol=FRE&selected=FRE"
doc=Hpricot(open(url))
rqTable=doc.search("//table[@class='dataGrid']//td/text()")
puts rqTable.inspect

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On Aug 12, 2:04 pm, Junkone <junko...@gmail.com> wrote:

url="http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/shortinterests.aspx?
symbol=FRE&selected=FRE"
doc=open(url) {|f| Hpricot(f)}
doc.search("//table[@class='dataGrid']")
rqTable=doc.search("//table[@class='dataGrid']")
rqTable.search('tr').each{|tr|

tdArray=tr.search('td')

    dataArray=Array\.new
    \#tr\.search\(&#39;td&#39;\)\.each\{|td|
    \#       puts td\.inner\_text
    \#       \}

    puts tdArray\[0\]\.class,tdArray\[1\]\.to\_s,tdArray\[2\]
    puts &quot;end&quot;

}

how do i get the text value of the tdArray[0] which is internally a
Hpricot::Elem