From: Tom Reilly <w3gat@...>
Date: 2007-09-19T06:22:43+09:00
Subject: Re: removing newline from eachline in file

Try changing the code to:
       file_in = File.new("whatever")
       file_in.each do |x|
             url = x.chomp + ".net"

gud luck
            

Chuck Dawit wrote:
> I'm reading a file line by line and trying to remove the newline at the
> end of each line so that I can rebuild the url with the "www" and the
> ".net" at the beginning and end. Does anyone know how I can remove the
> newline char at the end of each line? Also if the url doesn't work/exist
> I don't want the script to crash I want to keep moving through the file
> its reading.
>
> begin
>     while (line = f.readline)
>         line = line  =~ /(.*?)\n/
>         url = "www." + line + ".net"
>
>         open(url) { |page| page_content = page.read()
>     puts "link exists"
>   }
>     end
> rescue
> puts "link does not exist"
>
> rescue EOFError
>     f.close
> end
>