From: George Malamidis <george@...>
Date: 2007-06-12T00:41:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with getting info from several websites

Hello,

(1..10).each do |id|
   doc = Hpricot(open("http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/#{id}"))
   File.open("#{id}.txt", "w") do |f|
     f << (doc/'#vulnerability').inner_html
   end
end

Should write every page to a different file.

You can use stuff like gsub to replace/remove any unwanted characters.

George

On 11 Jun 2007, at 13:44, Tom Bombadil wrote:

> Indeed, I appreciate!! I have actually 2 more questions regarding this
> topic. Thus,
> 1) I'd like to either create a .txt or .xml file for each id. Can I  
> go ahead
> and use aFile = File.new("bid.txt", "w") and aFile.close?
> 2) How can I chomp the \n and \t characters in the terminal output?  
> I only
> need the text w/o tags. Best on separate lines...
> I owe you a pitcher :-)