From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2008-01-20T18:40:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Challenge: Extract episode descriptions.

On Jan 19, 10:39 pm, William James <w_a_x_...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> text = IO.read("episode_guide.html")
> a = text.scan(/<p>\s*stardate:[ a-z.\d]*(.*?)<\/p>/mi).flatten.
>   map{|s|
>     s.strip.gsub(/ /," ").gsub(/<.*?>|&[^;]+;/m,"").
>     gsub(/\s+/, " ") }
> puts a.join("\n\n")
> puts
> puts a.size

Corrected:

text = IO.read("episode_guide.html")
a = text.scan(/<p>\s*stardate:[ a-z.\d]*(.*?)<\/p>/mi).flatten.
  map{|s|
    s.gsub(/&nbsp;/," ").gsub(/<.*?>/m,"").gsub("&#39;","'").
    gsub(/\s+/, " ").strip }
puts a.join("\n\n")
puts
puts a.size