Question

Using Nokogiri and Ruby, I am trying to parse out a street address using a CSS selector. However, it is also including the city which I do not want.

Here is the statement I am using:

address = listing.at_css(".address").text

Here is the HTML:

<div class="address">
  117/1 Main St ,
  <span class="green">
  <strong>
   <u>
    <a href="city">Chicago</a>
   </u>
  </strong>
  </span>

The result I want:

117/1 Main St

but the result I am getting:

117/1 Main St , Chicago \n

I was thinking of using regex in combination with Nokogiri, but I’m not sure if Ruby can cut everything out after " ," including going back to cut out the " , ".

Answer 1

This returns 117/1 Main St , (with space and comma):

listing.at_css(".address").child.text

And this returns 117/1 Main St (space and comma removed):

listing.at_css(".address").child.text.sub(/ ,$/,"")