From: Srijayanth Sridhar <srijayanth@...>
Date: 2009-05-07T21:21:25+09:00
Subject: Re: removing Whitespace using regexp

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How many places do you know that have extensive Ruby training programs that
expect you to write HTML parsers armed with nothing but regular expressions?
;)

I live in Bangalore, and I don't know one. Either he truly has a sadistic
boss, or his truth is stranger than fiction. I don't doubt that it is
homework of some sort.

Jayanth

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Mark Thomas <mark@thomaszone.com> wrote:

>
> > I know your boss and whoever it is who is dangling your carrots won't let
> > you use Hpricot, but tell him you will use Hpricot to get properly
> formatted
> > html and then write a parser to parse the properly formatted html. Even
> he
> > can't be opposed to that(seeing as how he wants you to reinvent wheels).
> > That way you can get rid of your whitespace problem and deal with the
> cosmos
> > at large.
>
> Here's what we know about Arun from his previous posts...
> * he is a "trainee" doing assignments.
> * he is learning ruby
> * "nobody else" around him knows ruby
> * his "boss"/teacher is giving him specific assignments that seem to
> be purely academic exercises, because the constraints (e.g. don't use
> gsub, parse "example.com") would otherwise be completely ridiculous.
> * He doesn't have the authority to re-scope the assignment or offer
> alternate solutions.
>
> I believe he is asking us to do his homework.
>
>

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