From: Patrick Chanezon <chanezon@...>
Date: 2006-03-01T10:59:32+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Current Temperature (#68)

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An answer just for the fun of it, showing that you write as obscure and
unmaintainable code in Ruby as in Perl. The challenge was to get all the
functionality in a one liner, in order to see how far you can stretch ruby
expressions. They seem to stretch pretty well:-)

It uses Google, so it supports only zip codes as input.

require 'net/http'
puts ((ARGV.length !=3D 1) ? "Usage: #$0 <zip code>" :  (["The temperature
in"] + (/Weather<\/b> for <b>(.*)<\/b>.*\D(\d+)&deg;F/.match(Net::HTTP.get(
URI.parse("http://www.google.com/search?hl=3Den&q=3Dtemperature+#{ARGV[0]}"=
)))[1,2].collect!
{|x| " is " + x})).to_s.gsub!(/in is /, "in ") + " degree F")

./temp.rb 94117
The temperature in San Francisco, CA is 57 degree F
./temp.rb
Usage: ./temp.rb <zip code>


On 2/24/06, Ruby Quiz <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
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> by Caleb Tennis
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> Write a Ruby program such that given a certain argument to the program it
> will return the current temperature of that location.  People living in
> the United States may be interested in temperature by ZIP code:
>
>         $ ruby current_temp.rb 47201
>         The temperature in Columbus, Indiana is 32 degrees F.
>
> Other locales may want to use their own mailing codes, or city names:
>
>         $ ruby current_temp.rb madrid
>         The temperature in Madrid, Spain is 12 degrees C.
>
> Which arguments you support is up to you.
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>


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