Gregory Seidman wrote: >> Oh, i want all the values inside the <b></b> tags, btw > > str.split(/<b>|<\/b>,|<\/b>, <b>/) I thought, among other attrocities, that < was a reserved character for regular expressions. Not sure about the "has to be done using .split part", if some of us have studied REXML and Hpricot so thoroughly... (-; -- Phlip http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510657/ "Test Driven Ajax (on Rails)" assert_xpath, assert_javascript, & assert_ajax