Rails - Sep 2008 - hpricot and regexp parsing help needed please

Hello.

I''m using hpricot for the first time on a project.  I need to get some
url''s from a web site, but I only want certain url''s.

I can grab all of the url''s from the page without a problem, but how
can
I enhance this to select http://www.goodsite.com vs.
http://www.wrongsite.com?

I''d like to test for the string "goodsite".

Thanks!
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> I''m using hpricot for the first time on a project.  I need to get
some
> url''s from a web site, but I only want certain url''s.
>
> I can grab all of the url''s from the page without a problem, but
how
> can
> I enhance this to select http://www.goodsite.com vs.
> http://www.wrongsite.com?
>
> I''d like to test for the string "goodsite".

...assuming doc is an hpricot object...

doc.search("a[@href*=''goodsite'']") do |result|
   ....
end



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Philip Hallstrom wrote:
> ...assuming doc is an hpricot object...
> 
> doc.search("a[@href*=''goodsite'']") do |result|
>    ....
> end


Yes, that works to only grab the links that I need.  Previously though, 
I had used

(doc/:a).each do |link|

this only gave me the html string.

Can I do this the same way instead of returning

<a href= "http://...

I only want http:// so that I can use these links.

THANKS!
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Actually, I was wrong in my previous post.  Sorry!!  Both results are 
the same, i.e., I get back the <a href...

Is there a way for me to have a clean link?  I want to insert this into 
a table and then pull up the pages.

Thanks!
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Figured it out.

doc.search("a[@href*=''goodsite'']") do |result|
   link = results.attributes[''href'']
   puts link
end
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