From: Tanner Burson <tanner.burson@...>
Date: 2006-07-20T04:01:24+09:00
Subject: Re: maybe I don't understand the .to_a method...

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On 7/19/06, John Fink <john.fink@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > > require 'net/http'
> > > require 'uri'
> > >
> > > filename = 'test.txt'
> > >
> > > def testget(filename)
> > > url = URI.parse('http://vineland.lib.muohio.edu/' + filename  )
> > > req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url.path)
> > > res = Net::HTTP.start(url.host, url.port) {|http| http.request(req) }
> > > end
> > >
> > > test = testget(filename)
> > > test2 = test.to_a
> >
> > test2 = test.split(/[\n\r]+/)
> >
> > > puts test
> > > puts test2[0]
> > > puts test2[1]
> >
> > that would "eat" blank lines though, but gets you closer...
> >
> >
> >
>
> Aha, split.  I've now tried split on arbitrary lines in irb, and it works
> on
> them.  But trying split in my little program here yields the following
> error:
>
> testget.rb:13: private method `split' called for #<Net::HTTPOK 200 OK
> readbody=true> (NoMethodError)
>
> Googling this hairy error gives me no leads.
>
> jf



Try doing  test2 = test.body.split (given the sample code you listed above)




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