From: Cameron Vessey <cameron1inm@...>
Date: 2010-09-12T05:48:39+09:00
Subject: .each skipping elements

I have an array of links from a webpage.  I need to clean up the links
so it only has city links in it. So I do a .each and test for regex.

page.links.each{

if link.text =~ /(Blog|About Us|Status|Help|TOS|Privacy|Are we missing
an area?)/
     page.links.delete(link)
end
end

For some reason the deleting of a link/element causes it to skip the
next link/element

in the array the last 7 links are

About us
Blog
Status
Help
TOS
Privacy
Are we missing an area?

but  after running the .each on the array I still end up with

blog
help
privacy

if I run it again

help

lol, so why can't I do this on just one run threw with .each?
or why would deleting an element cause it to skip the next one.

I rebuilt it with an ugly while loop with a counter ..same problem
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