Comments on: Deleting my Blog http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2008/03/07/deleting-my-blog/ Technology and Geek Stuff by Eric Burke Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:36:32 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Marcello Barnaba http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2008/03/07/deleting-my-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-7237 Marcello Barnaba Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:50:54 +0000 http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2008/03/07/deleting-my-blog/#comment-7237 Hi Eric, just a small suggestion to refactor your code: <code> normalized_str.split("\n").map { |line| line.strip }.join </code> You see, you don't need intermediate variables: just apply the block (<code>{|line| line.strip}</code>) to the array returned by split and then join them. <code>join</code> uses its first argument as the separator, or the contents of the global variable (<code>$,</code>), <code>nil</code> by default. Have a good journey down the Ruby way ;). -vjt Hi Eric,

just a small suggestion to refactor your code:


normalized_str.split("\n").map { |line| line.strip }.join

You see, you don’t need intermediate variables: just apply the block ({|line| line.strip}) to the array returned by split and then join them. join uses its first argument as the separator, or the contents of the global variable ($,), nil by default.

Have a good journey down the Ruby way ;) .

-vjt

]]> By: Eric Burke http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2008/03/07/deleting-my-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-7156 Eric Burke Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:54:23 +0000 http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2008/03/07/deleting-my-blog/#comment-7156 Yeah, it's pretty crude...probably missing all sorts of XML whitespace variations, but it seems to work for my tests. I've basically got a big HERE block with a chunk of expected XML, and the indentation was hosing up the test. While REXML has some pretty-print capability, I wasn't able to coerce it into consistently indented tags. In Java, I typically use JDOM to convert to/from a Document and a String, which does seem to be more consistent about pretty-printing. Yeah, it’s pretty crude…probably missing all sorts of XML whitespace variations, but it seems to work for my tests. I’ve basically got a big HERE block with a chunk of expected XML, and the indentation was hosing up the test. While REXML has some pretty-print capability, I wasn’t able to coerce it into consistently indented tags. In Java, I typically use JDOM to convert to/from a Document and a String, which does seem to be more consistent about pretty-printing.

]]> By: Bob Lee http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2008/03/07/deleting-my-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-7151 Bob Lee Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:56:32 +0000 http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2008/03/07/deleting-my-blog/#comment-7151 I assume you don't mean "ignorable whitespace" in the strict sense (strict meaning that w/o a schema, the only "ignorable" whitespace is that outside of the root element). I'm not going anywhere! :-) I assume you don’t mean “ignorable whitespace” in the strict sense (strict meaning that w/o a schema, the only “ignorable” whitespace is that outside of the root element).

I’m not going anywhere! :-)

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