From: Simon Schuster <significants@...>
Date: 2007-09-07T13:00:02+09:00
Subject: Re: help me condence my code?

my local copy has some extra (probably important) authorship/proj
gutenberg info at the beginning and end that I've stripped, but other
than that this code works perfectly. I really like how it's split up
by lines per method. thanks a lot!

also is \[ a literal bracket, or some kind of grouping device that
just happens to be also the boundary-character I'm looking for?


On 9/6/07, Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@nasa.gov> wrote:
> 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,
> --
> Bil Kleb
> http://nasarb.rubyforge.org
>
>