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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 25, 2009, 2:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ask-how-to-remove-html-part-of-a-text/180644 "2009-12-25T14:57:56Z")\
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**Author:**  [@inittial\_d](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/inittial_d)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 2:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ask-how-to-remove-html-part-of-a-text/180644/1 "2009-12-25T14:57:56Z")
i’m using Hpricot to parsing html and my output is:
Größe: 37 - 54
Maßtabelle
does anyone knows how to get the string “Größe: 37 - 54” and remove the
rest of that string ?
thanks
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**Author:**  [@inittial\_d](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/inittial_d)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ask-how-to-remove-html-part-of-a-text/180644/2 "2009-12-25T16:13:39Z")
sorry for triple post…problem solved, i used nokogiri instead of
hpricot 🙂
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**Author:**  [@inittial\_d](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/inittial_d)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 3:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ask-how-to-remove-html-part-of-a-text/180644/3 "2009-12-25T15:40:07Z")
sorry for double posting, it seems there is no edit post feature…
I have a problem with HTML parsing issue. I’ll try to explain my problem
as clear as I can, and I hope someone can help me with this.
I’ve been given a task to fetch a specific data from HTML page. I’m
planning to use hpricot plugin to do this.
It’s an online shop page, and I have to fetch cloth size information.
The product information part of the page can be in either of these 2
formats:
... Some informations ...
|
| |
| Available in: |
| ... (The data I want to fetch) ... |
OR
... Some informations ...
|
| |
| ... Content ... | Available in: |
| ... Content ... | ... (The data I want to fetch) ... |
The clue is: The row whose data I want to fetch, is always preceeded by
a row containing a string “Available in”.
And I want to fetch NOT the content of the row, BUT the content of the
last cell (
) contained inside the row.
It’s complex, and I have no idea on what to do here. Can someone help me
with this?
Thanks for the concern.
PS: The table snippet I post above may be contained inside another
table.
Apparently, the online shop use tables to do page formatting…
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**Author:**  [@inittial\_d](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/inittial_d)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2009, 4:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ask-how-to-remove-html-part-of-a-text/180644/4 "2009-12-26T04:25:56Z")
Darmanto Lie wrote:
> thanks
> “Gradhbbee: 37 - 54
> ”[/^(._?)\ ==\>“Gradhbbee: 37 - 54”
> “Gradhbbee: 37 - 54
> ”[/^(._?)(?=\<)/]
> ==\>“Gradhbbee: 37 - 54”
> “Gradhbbee: 37 - 54
> ”[/^[^\<]\*/]
> ==\>“Gradhbbee: 37 - 54”