From: "jannis@..." <jannis@...>
Date: 2007-07-08T02:41:09+09:00
Subject: Re: flatulent-0.0.3



On 7 Jul., 19:17, "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.how...@gmail.com> wrote:
>    def deflatulent string
>      if string =~ /<pre id='[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+_element' style='.*?'>(.*?)<
> \/ pre>/m   ########## there is a space before pre
>        string = $1
>        [[/<\/?span>/,''],["&nbsp;"," "],["<br>","\n"],["&lt;","<"],  
> ["&gt;",">"],["&quot;",'"'],["&amp;","&"]].each do |args|
>          string.gsub!(*args)
>        end
>      end

It seems that google groups added line breaks inside the regexp that
somehow
turned into spaces for you... try it without the space before pre...
if that
doesn't work I can upload my code somewhere...
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Jannis Harder