mmm something like this? url1 = Whatever... MT = 'Search '+'<b>'+d_term.chomp+'</b>' if (open(url1).find { |line| line.match(MT) } != nil) foo = File.open("c://abc.txt", "a+") foo.puts ("Found: " + line) foo.close() end On 9/28/06, Madu Nar <bharadwaj.n / gmail.com> wrote: > Jean Verger wrote: > > thanks ... simple and efficient :) it works > > > > thanks, > > > > Jean > > Hello there, > I am a newbie to Ruby and Watir. > Currently, me trying to extract a parameter from the html page. But the > Value I am trying to extract keeps changing and depends on the input. > Here is the piece of code I tried which did not work... > > require 'open-uri' > require'watir' > require 'fileutils' > require 'net/http' > > d_term = "Banks" > > url1 = Whatever... > MT = 'Search '+'<b>'+d_term.chomp+'</b>' > open(url1).find {|line| > if line.match(MT) > foo = File.open("c://abc.txt", "a+") > foo.puts ("Found: " + line) > foo.close() > end > > Any help greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Madu > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > >