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Extracting a part of a string in Ruby

I know this is an easy question, but I want to extract one part of a string with rails. I would do this like Java, by knowing the beginning and end character of the string and extract it, but I want to do this by ruby way, that's why I need your help.

My string is:

<a href="javascript:launchRemote('99999','C')">STACK OVER AND FLOW             </a>

And I want the numerical values between quotation marks => 99999 and the value of the link => STACK OVER AND FLOW

How should I parse this string in ruby ?

Thanks.

Solution

  • If you need to parse html: 

    > require 'nokogiri'
> str = %q[<a href="javascript:launchRemote('99999','C')">STACK OVER AND FLOW</a>]
> doc = Nokogiri.parse(str)
> link = doc.at('a')
> link.text
=> "STACK OVER AND FLOW"
> link['href'][/(\d+)/, 1]
=> "99999"

    http://nokogiri.org/