From: Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>
Date: 2007-09-07T10:25:08+09:00
Subject: Re: help me condence my code?

Simon Schuster wrote:
> I know this could be more idiomatic to ruby.

Don't know about idiomatic, but here's my
filter-split-filter take:

  require 'open-uri'

  f = open('http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18362/18362.txt').read.
      gsub(/\s*\[.*?\]/m,'').   # strip comments
      split("\r\n").            # DOS line endings
      delete_if{ |e| e.empty? } # remove blank lines

  puts f[ rand f.size ]

Regards,
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Bil Kleb
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