From: "touffik@..." <touffik@...>
Date: 2008-07-25T18:09:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp Ruby selection

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Srijayanth Sridhar
<srijaya...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Any specific reason you can't use hpricot or other HTML parsers?

I didn't know this tool for ruby. I used once a parser named tidy but
that's all. I'll try now and let you know.

On Jul 25, 9:58 am, Sebastian Hungerecker <sep...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> Generally in ruby .. denotes a range. Like starting_value .. end_value.
> In this case though it denotes a flip flop, which is evil and should never
> ever be used because it makes my head hurt. Here's what it does though:
> some_loop {
>   do_something if foo .. bar}
>
> This will do nothing until foo is true. When foo is true it will do_something.
> It will then keep doing_something in every iteration of the loop until bar
> becomes true. After bar became true it will stop doing_something until foo is
> true again.
> So as a summary: It doesn't do what you thought it did. As a matter of fact it
> doesn't do anything sane. So just keep as far away from it as possible.
>

So i was wrong .. Thanks you for your explaination of this wrong use
of the loop.

Thanks you.