From: Nathan Thickett-menghini <somerandom_bloke@...>
Date: 2007-09-19T01:36:50+09:00
Subject: Re: errors, trying to edit and write some text files

Many thanks - you're helping me hugely. I've gone through the script and 
made the changes you suggested and it has worked in the most part. The 
part of the script that parses the lines is now as follows:

today = `curl -s "#{URL}"?due=0`.split("\n").select{|line| line =~ 
/\s+/}
tomorrow = `curl -s "#{URL}"?due=1`.split("\n").select{|line| line =~ 
/\s+/}
this_week = `curl -s "#{URL}"?due=6`.split("\n").select{|line| line =~ 
/\s+/}
later = `curl -s "#{URL}"?due=365`.split("\n").select{|line| line =~ 
/\s+/}

I'm sure this is not perfect but it seems to do the trick of including 
the lines that begin with blank space. Let me show you the feed as you 
requested.


HOME:
    [18/09/2007] Parcelforce coming after 1pm
    [19/09/2007] be a bender
    [21/09/2007] Sort important documents etc

WORK:
    [24/09/2007] Learn NATS Stuff

CAR:
    [30/09/2007] nob

So you see there are lines that begin with letters (these are the 
contexts, Home, Work, etc) lines with a small gap followed by events, 
and lines that are entirely blank.

You'll have noticed that part of the script deletes duplicate lines  - 
so that you don't get an event that is on today's feed repeated on the 
weekly feed. This works mostly but it also deletes repeated CONTEXTS, 
i.e. the context 'HOME:' will appear on today's feed but not on any 
others. I've tried to get round this by totally abandoning all contexts, 
i.e. changing the part that parses the lines to NOT INCLUDE lines that 
begin with word characters. This works, but it now still includes the 
totally empty lines, which puts gaps in my text files. Could you add a 
tiny part to the following line to show me how to NOT include empty 
lines? Is this possible? I know it seems like a lot of effort for a 
small problem, but I'd really appreciate it, it will make me more 
productive to see my events neatly on my desktop.

today = `curl -s "#{URL}"?due=0`.split("\n").select{|line| line =~ 
/\s+/}
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