> I can find the section I want with a regex but I don't know how to > iterate through the string looking for particular elements. I was > thinking about taking the section I'm interested in and saving it as > an array and then iterating through each array element (html line) > that way, but I thought there might be a quicker way to do it. $html.scan(%r{<div.*first section.*</div>}m).to_s.scan(/<li>/).size -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.