comp.lang.ruby

Paul Lutus

10/6/2006 5:44:00 AM

cs5b@yahoo.com wrote:

> Does somebody have any suggestions on how to extract relative as well
> as absolute links from an html page. It seems like the URI.extract only
> matches on absolute urls.

Roll your own, a classic piece of programming advice:

#!/usr/bin/ruby -w

data = File.read("/path/page.html")

data.scan(/src\s*=\s*\"(.*?)\"/im) { |item|
puts "src = #{item}\n"
}

data.scan(/href\s*=\s*\"(.*?)\"/im) { |item|
puts "href = #{item}\n"
}

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Paul Lutus
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