On Jul 1, 4:03 pm, Dan Diebolt <dandieb...@[...].com>  wrote:
>  [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
> 
>  >I would like to access each table individually
> 
>  doc.search returns an array even if there is only one match. The consturct you are using i
terates through this array:
> 
>  doc.search(strPath) do |div|
> 
>  end
> 
>  if you capture the search results into a variable named "divs" you can index it like and a
rray (because it is one)
> 
>  divs=doc.search(strPath)
> 
>  If you want to immediately start iterating you can do this:
> 
>  doc.search(strPath).each_with_index do |div,idiv|
>    puts idiv if idiv==2
>  end
> 
>  I work with hpricot a lot and I find it is more productive to not use all the fancy ruby i
dioms to shorten your code as you are dealing with pages that are very fragile to parse when
 someone changes the page content.
> 
>  See code below
>  ==============
>  require 'hpricot'
>  require 'open-uri'
> 
>  strLink ="http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/gamecenter/boxscore/MLB_20080331_ARI@CIN"
>  strPath ="//div[@class='SLTables1']/div"
> 
>  doc = Hpricot(open(strLink))
>  divs=doc.search(strPath)
> 
>  puts "#{divs[0].inner_text.slice(0..70)}\n\n"
>  puts "#{divs[1].inner_text.slice(0..70)}\n\n"
>  puts "#{divs[2].inner_text.slice(0..70)}\n\n"
>  puts "#{divs[3].inner_text.slice(0..70)}\n\n"

This works. Will be very useful for future projects.

I ended up using the xpath for each table which also worked.

Thanks,

Luis