Jillian Kozyra wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for a way to do the following: > > I have some html in strings, mostly links (i.e. <a > href="http://mysite.com">). I need to delete these lines. I've been > trying to do this, but it's not working out: > > question.gsub! ("<a href=\"\/([.]+)\/\" >$/i", "") > or also: question.gsub! ("<a href=\"\/([a-zA-z0-9]+)\/\" >$/i", "") > > (and various permutations of these two). > > How would one go about this? > > Thanks, > Jillian q = 'Hello <a href="http://mysite.com">world<a href="http://mysite.com">.' result = q.gsub(/<a.*?>/, "") puts result --output:-- Hello world. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.