Regexp simple question

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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

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In words, describe what just the regex part does.

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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

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On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Arun Kumar <arunkumar@innovaturelabs.com>wrote:

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
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Arun Kumar wrote:

  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!

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7stud -- wrote:

In words, describe what just the regex part does.

I mean the part between the <li> tags.

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That bugle's been blown to death mate.

Jayanth

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On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Phlip <phlip2005@gmail.com> wrote:

Arun Kumar wrote:

> 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!

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  Phlip