ruby regular expression: how to parse key-value pairs?

Question

html is string like:

<xxx name1 = "value1" name2 = "value2">

How to use regular expression to parse key-value pairs into a hash (like {"name1": "value1", "name2": "value2"})? The tag does not matter now.

I am new to ruby and have no idea how to start. Any hints? Thanks

UPDATE

My question is how to use regex to do parsing. I know that third party is a good option. But I am just curious about how to use regex to do parsing.

You cannot [parse HTML with regexp](http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/2483313). — spickermann, May 21 '17 at 15:28

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 21 '17 at 15:26

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Regardless of the programming language, parsing html using regexp is not a good idea. In case of Ruby, Nokogiri is a good option.

answered May 21 '17 at 15:26

Peter Pei Guo

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