# Regexp help **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [August 21, 2008, 12:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/regexp-help/146465 "2008-08-21T12:48:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![newb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/2acd7d/32.png) [@newb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newb)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 12:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/regexp-help/146465/1 "2008-08-21T12:48:26Z")
I Need to Extract Img tag Using Regular Expressions From The Html Page \<\s_img [^\>]src\s=\s_(["’])(.\*?)\1 Is This Code Would be ok Can Any One Say Me Some Other regexp For Img Tag Extracing? ---
**Author:** ![newb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/2acd7d/32.png) [@newb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newb)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 12:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/regexp-help/146465/2 "2008-08-21T12:54:39Z")
Newb N. wrote: > I Need to Extract Img tag Using Regular Expressions From The Html Page > \<\s_img [^\>]src\s=\s_(["’])(.\*?)\1 > Is This Code Would be ok > > Can Any One Say Me Some Other regexp For Img Tag Extracing? Instead of using a regular expression you could consider a html parser , and/or do a xpath search to retrieve images. Check hpricot . ---
**Author:** ![newb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/2acd7d/32.png) [@newb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newb)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 1:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/regexp-help/146465/3 "2008-08-21T13:01:07Z")
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Lex W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Instead of using a regular expression you could consider a html parser , > and/or do a xpath search to retrieve images. Check hpricot . Yeah, it is quite easy with Hpricot: require ‘open-uri’ require ‘hpricot’ site = Hpricot(open(“[http://code.google.com/edu/submissions/SedgewickWayne/index.html](http://code.google.com/edu/submissions/SedgewickWayne/index.html)”)) site.search(“//img”) #=\> returns an array of all images ---
**Author:** ![newb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/2acd7d/32.png) [@newb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newb)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/regexp-help/146465/4 "2008-08-21T13:41:14Z")
Thomas W. wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Lex W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > Instead of using a regular expression you could consider a html parser , > > and/or do a xpath search to retrieve images. Check hpricot . > > Yeah, it is quite easy with Hpricot: > > require ‘open-uri’ > require ‘hpricot’ > > site = > Hpricot(open(“[http://code.google.com/edu/submissions/SedgewickWayne/index.html](http://code.google.com/edu/submissions/SedgewickWayne/index.html)”)) > site.search(“//img”) #=\> returns an array of all images yes i used as this doc = Hpricot.parse(item.description) imgs = doc.search(“//img”) @src\_array = imgs.collect{|img|img.attributes[“src”]} but it gives only the Image Url’s but I need to Get ![]() tag Fully … Any Helps ---
**Author:** ![newb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/2acd7d/32.png) [@newb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newb)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 1:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/regexp-help/146465/5 "2008-08-21T13:45:45Z")
Newb N. schrieb: > > require ‘open-uri’ > > doc = Hpricot.parse(item.description) > > imgs = doc.search("//img") > > @src\_array = imgs.collect{|img|img.attributes[“src”]} > > but it gives only the Image Url’s but I need to Get > ![]() tag Fully … > Any Helps Then do @src\_array = imgs.collect{|img| “\" } ? – Otto Software Partner GmbH Jan P. (e-mail: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid) Tel. 0351/49723202, Fax: 0351/49723119 01067 Dresden, Freiberger Straße 35 - AG Dresden, HRB 2475 Geschäftsführer: Burkhard Arrenberg, Heinz A. Bade, Jens Gruhl ---
**Author:** ![newb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/2acd7d/32.png) [@newb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newb)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 2:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/regexp-help/146465/6 "2008-08-21T14:04:05Z")
i’m not really sure about hpricot , but with html/tree parser , when you call a node’s to\_s method , you got it’s full html . So , you should try to call .to\_s on the array’s elements , and see if it’s what you need. ---
**Author:** ![newb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/2acd7d/32.png) [@newb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newb)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 6:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/regexp-help/146465/7 "2008-08-22T06:12:17Z")
Jan P. wrote: > Newb N. schrieb: > > > > require ‘open-uri’ > > > doc = Hpricot.parse(item.description) > > > imgs = doc.search("//img") > > > @src\_array = imgs.collect{|img|img.attributes[“src”]} > > > > but it gives only the Image Url’s but I need to Get > > ![]() tag Fully … > > Any Helps > > Then do > > @src\_array = imgs.collect{|img| “\ }"\>" } > > ? yes It works… Is It Possible to Use @src\_array into String.sub!(pattern,replacement) That is @src\_array.sub(/[@src\_array]/," ") @src\_array contains all the img tags.i need to replace it empty… for that will tat above code work? can u get me there? > – > Otto Software Partner GmbH > > Jan P. (e-mail: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid) > > Tel. 0351/49723202, Fax: 0351/49723119 > 01067 Dresden, Freiberger Straße 35 - AG Dresden, HRB 2475 > Geschäftsführer: Burkhard Arrenberg, Heinz A. Bade, Jens Gruhl