http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:39:56 GMT DZone Snippets: Mazz70's Code Snippets http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2558 // reads and extracts regexp using open-uri <br /> <br /><code> <br />require "open-uri"; include OpenURI <br />alpha=('a'..'z').to_a <br /> <br />snames=File.new('stations.txt','w') <br />alpha.each {|a| <br />open("http://www.irishrail.ie/your_journey/stationpicker.asp?id=#{a}&box=From") {|f| <br /> f.each_line {|line| snames.puts line} <br />}} <br /> <br />snames=File.new('stations.txt','r') <br />data=snames.read <br />rx1=/sendValue\('([a-zA-Z]+)/ <br />sarr=data.scan(rx1) <br />stations=sarr.collect{|s| s[0]} <br />stations.uniq! <br />puts stations <br /></code> Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:26:31 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2558 mazz70 (kjk)