From: Joe OBrien <joeobjo@...>
Date: 2005-04-29T01:44:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a Ruby library that does HTML entity parsing?

>This can also be done using File.split / dirname /
>basename:
>
>File.dirname "http://foo.com/bar/stuff.html"
>#=> "http://foo.com/bar"
>
>File.basename "http://foo.com/bar/stuff.html"
>#=> "stuff.html"
>
>File.split "http://foo.com/bar/stuff.html"
>#=> ["http://foo.com/bar", "stuff.html"]
>
>File.join(
File.dirname("http://foo.com/bar/doc.html"), 
"relative_link.html" )
># => "http://foo.com/bar/relative_link.html"
>
>Though that probably breaks on Windows since it has 
>backslashes for 
>directory separators.

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Using WinXP Pro (but don't tell me friends) and it
worked like a champ.  I tried it in irb and as a
script in a file and both of them worked well.  

Thanks, didn't think to use this library on URL's.

-Joe

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