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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 24, 2007, 9:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-to-plain-text/107660 "2007-06-24T21:41:49Z")\
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**Author:**  [@banry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/banry)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 9:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-to-plain-text/107660/1 "2007-06-24T21:41:49Z")
Okay, I have played with Hpricot and I am a convert. Amazing stuff.
I am struggling up to speed and I can’t find what must be a basic
function. I’ve scraped the FAA site and they store all their stuff
wrapped in td’s, wrapped in tr’s, wrapped in tables. Thank you
Hpricot.
Now that I have “ **Manufacturer** ” isn’t there a simple call to get
rid of the last bit of html?
Thanks,
–Colin
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**Author:**  [@banry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/banry)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 10:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-to-plain-text/107660/2 "2007-06-24T22:03:52Z")
Hi Colin, consult api doc for Hpricot.inner\_text:
require ‘rubygems’
require ‘hpricot’
require ‘open-uri’
doc = open( ‘[Google](http://www.google.com/ncr)’ ) { |io| Hpricot io }
doc.inner\_text
Regards
Florian
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**Author:**  [@banry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/banry)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 10:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-to-plain-text/107660/3 "2007-06-24T22:06:53Z")
On Jun 24, 1:40 pm, “Colin S.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> Thanks,
> –Colin
It looks like you’re looking for the inner\_text method.
HTH,
Chris
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**Author:**  [@banry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/banry)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 10:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-to-plain-text/107660/4 "2007-06-24T22:32:56Z")
On 6/24/07, Todd B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> The following does:
>
> require ‘rubygems’
> require ‘hpricot’
> html\_string = ‘ **Manufacturer** ’
> html\_data = Hpricot html\_string
> html\_element = html\_data / “b”
> puts html\_element.inner\_html
Another “jump too soon moment”.
In the above code, I didn’t point out that html\_element should be
plural. It still works though, but technically the grammatically
correct way would be:
require ‘rubygems’
require ‘hpricot’
html\_string = ‘ **Manufacturer** ’
html\_data = Hpricot html\_string
html\_elements = html\_data / “b”
first\_b\_element = html\_data.at “b”
first\_b\_element\_also = (html\_data / “b”).first
puts first\_b\_element.inner\_html
Todd
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**Author:**  [@banry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/banry)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 10:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-to-plain-text/107660/5 "2007-06-24T22:17:54Z")
On 6/24/07, Florian Aßmann [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> Hi Colin, consult api doc for Hpricot.inner\_text:
>
> require ‘rubygems’
> require ‘hpricot’
> require ‘open-uri’
> doc = open( ‘[Google](http://www.google.com/ncr)’ ) { |io| Hpricot io }
> doc.inner\_text
> ^^^^^^^
> This code (above) doesn’t work on my system.
The following does:
require ‘rubygems’
require ‘hpricot’
html\_string = ‘ **Manufacturer** ’
html\_data = Hpricot html\_string
html\_element = html\_data / “b”
puts html\_element.inner\_html
Todd