comp.lang.ruby

Chris Rio

6/30/2008 10:15:00 PM

Chris Rio wrote:
> Mornin' folks - I'm trying to get my head around ruby, writing a few
> scripts. This one is meant to head off to a webpage and grab a big
> table, which it does. The problem is that I don't know how to
> specifically grab that entire table, but I can manage to grab the
> content based on classes.
>
> Doing it this way however, I end up not grabbing some of the table tags
> - so I need to replace them:
>
> http://pastie.textmate....
>
> All of the methods I have used thus far end up parsing that string, even
> though it's quoted up and I want it to be treated purely as a string.
> Ruby throws exceptions at me as it tries to parse a string I just want
> dumped into the text file in its entirety.
>
> Any thoughts? :)
>
> Cheers folks
>
> Chris R

Figured it out. aFile.puts "string" works like a charm.

What a dumby :P
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