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Created June 10, 2014 03:59
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grabbing the last 200 characters preceeding a 'blockquote'
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detect_quote_header.rb
#
# Brute force method of grabbing 200 characters preceeding first <blockquote> element
#
p = Post.last
parts = p.split_as_html
root = Nokogiri::HTML.fragment(parts.first.raw_content)
bq = root.search('blockquote')[1]
test_string = root.inner_html[(root.inner_html.index(bq.to_html) - 200)...(root.inner_html.index(bq.to_html))]
# ">\n<br><br><div class=\"gmail_quote\">On Tue, Jun 29, 2014 at 11:19 AM, John Smith <span dir=\"ltr\">&lt;
# <a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\" target=\"_blank\">[email protected]</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>"
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