I have the following code:
require ‘open-uri’
def scrape_table(html)
%r{</thead.?>(.?)}m =~html
$1
end
def scrape_case(a_line)
%r{(<a\s.*?\d{6}-\d{2}’>\d{6}-\d{2}</a>)}m =~ a_line
$1
end
if $0 == FILE
url = 'http://localhost:8080/tests/raw.html';
page = open(url) #open the url like a file
text = page.read; #read it into one string
my_table = scrape_table(text) #grab or "scrape" the table
my_link = scrape_case(my_table) #grab a html that includes a 6-2
digit number (ex: 080910-15)
puts(my_table) #prints out my_table – which contains the table
information
puts("\n")
puts(my_link)
end
The code grabs the one table contained in my URL then looks for an
HTML link that includes a number that is 6 digits, followed by a dash,
followed by 6 digits. I’m fairly certain the regex in scrape_case( )
grabs more than one html link, if more than one is in the table. Is
there any way I can grab all those links into an array?