Extracting text from a string

Rails
1

Hi i have previously managed to extract links from html using the
follownig code:

html.scan(/src\s*=\s*"(.*?)"/im) { |item|

link = item.to_s

}

this worked great, however i want to extract some other text from html,
and i dont quite understand how the paramaters passed to the scan method
work.

can anyone explain or have a good link about this?

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3

The ruby api [1] has some useful information on the scan function. The
page
you are interested in is probably [2]. If you are going to be
manipulating
html documents, you might want to check out Hpricot [3], or some other
html
parser.

[1] RDoc Documentation
[2] http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/StringScanner.html
[3] http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/