From: Bil Kleb Date: 2007-09-07T20:10:08+09:00 Subject: Re: help me condence my code? Simon Schuster wrote: > 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. Yes, you could drop the open-uri stuff and just use your File.read on your local copy, but I needed something to work from... > I really like how it's split up by lines per method. thanks a lot! 'welcome. It reflects the way I think about the problem. Others may think differently. :) > also is \[ a literal bracket, or some kind of grouping device that > just happens to be also the boundary-character I'm looking for? Literal bracket. Otherwise, it defines a range of characters. E.g., [a-mA-M0-4] matches the first half of all alphanumerics. Regards, -- Bil Kleb http://fun3d.larc.nasa.gov