"<-----/strings/----->" my ruby http client, link search

Ruby
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im not sure how to ask this question…
Imagen the body of a webpage as the string im searching threw…

[body]
<a href=“htxp://www.xxxxxx/not-this-one/xxxxx/xxxxxx” onclick=""
style=“font-size:15
<a href=“htxp://www.xxxxxx/files/xxxxxxx/xxxxxxxx” onclick=”"
style=“font-size:15
<a href=“htxp://www.xxxxxx/nope/xxxxxxx/xxxxxxxx” onclick=”"
style=“font-size:15
<a href=“htxp://www.xxxxxx/or-this/xxxxxxx/xxxxxxxx” onclick=”"
style="font-size:15[/body]

i need to find this /files/ then on the left side and right side there
are quotes “<------/files/------>”

i need all the data in between each quote, this will be a download link
my script will need to find…

im not sure how to do this… please help if you can

2

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Michael F.
[email protected] wrote:

style="font-size:15

HTML

Nokogiri::HTML(text).xpath(‘//a[contains(@href,“/files/”)]’).map{|a| a[:href]
}
=> [“htxp://www.xxxxxx/files/xxxxxxx/xxxxxxxx”]

Or even

doc.xpath(‘//a[contains(@href,“/files/”)]/@href’).map(&:value)

Kind regards

robert

3

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Bigmac T. [email protected]
wrote:

<a href=“htxp://www.xxxxxx/or-this/xxxxxxx/xxxxxxxx” onclick=“”
style="font-size:15[/body]

i need to find this /files/ then on the left side and right side there
are quotes “<------/files/------>”

i need all the data in between each quote, this will be a download link
my script will need to find…

im not sure how to do this… please help if you can

require ‘nokogiri’
text = <<HTML




HTML

Nokogiri::HTML(text).xpath(‘//a[contains(@href,“/files/”)]’).map{|a| a[:href] }
=> [“htxp://www.xxxxxx/files/xxxxxxx/xxxxxxxx”]