From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2007-07-08T02:52:49+09:00
Subject: Re: flatulent-0.0.3


On Jul 7, 2007, at 11:41 AM, jannis@harderweb.de wrote:

>
>
> 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...
> --
> Jannis Harder
>
>

my version doesn't seem to have line breaks - here it is:

   http://drawohara.tumblr.com/post/5164285

thanks for having a go - i'm not sure this can be made to work, but  
i'm still very interested in an ImageMagick-less captcha system.

cheers

-a
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