Hi, >From: Vikash Kumar <vikashkumar051 / gmail.com> >Reply-To: ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org >To: ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML) >Subject: How to get data from html table >Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:20:54 +0900 > >I want to store the values of a table in different variables, I have the >following table structure: > ><table width="579"> > <tr class="even"> > <td class width="65"> Case5-04</td> > <td class width="130">10/11/2006 23:24:33</td> > <td class width="61">Case5-04</td> > <td class width="32">1005</td> > <td class width="59">Sell</td> > <td class width="36">1,000</td> > <td class width="34">ARP</td> > <td class width="52">$36.90</td> > </tr> > <tr class="odd"> > <td class width="65"> Case5-03</td> > <td class width="130">10/11/2006 23:20:07</td> > <td class width="61">Case5-03</a></td> > <td class width="32">1005</td> > <td class width="59">Buy</td> > <td class width="36">1,500</td> > <td class width="34">ARP</td> > <td class width="52">$36.70</td> > </tr> > <tr class="even"> > <td class width="65"> Case4-04</td> > <td class width="130">10/11/2006 05:28:54</td> > <td class width="61">Case4-04</a></td> > <td class width="32">1004</td> > <td class width="59">Sell</td> > <td class width="36">300</td> > <td class width="34">RIL</td> > <td class width="52">$490.00</td> > </tr> > <tr class="odd"> > <td class width="65"> Case4-03</td> > <td class width="130">10/11/2006 05:21:32</td> > <td class width="61">Case4-03</a></td> > <td class width="32">1004</td> > <td class width="59">Buy</td> > <td class width="36">200</td> > <td class width="34">RIL</td> > <td class width="52">$489.90</td> > </tr> ></table> > >I want to store the values in variables so that I can compare records. >Please help me out how to do this in ruby. > Here is another way: After saving the html table text to file 'w.xml', You can deal the value like this: require 'rexml/document' include REXML doc = Document.new File.new("w.xml") doc.elements.each("*/tr/td") {|e| puts e.texts } Regards, Park Heesob _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/