[Wtr-general] get the meta tag out of a page

[Alien Ruby]

Thank you so much, Jeff.

This is the key, right here - ie.document.getElementsByTagName( "meta" ).item(i).outerHTML

I couldnt figure this out what function to use by myself, but now it's worked out very well.

But, my other question is why '...outerHTML.getContents' or '...outerHTML.getText' or some similar functions cant just spit out the value/content?


# I leave it to you to come up with good regular expressions for parsing
things out.

# these work but are overly greedy.
matches = body.scan( /name="(.+)"/ )
name = matches[1] || ""
matches = body.scan( /content="(.+)"/ )
content = matches[1] || ""
matches = body.scan( /http-equiv="{0,1}(.+)"{0,1}/ )
http_equiv = matches[1] || ""

http_equivs[http_equiv] = content if http_equiv != ""
metas[name] = content if name != ""
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