mechanize version 0.7.3 has been released!

* <http://mechanize.rubyforge.org/>

The Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites.
Mechanize automatically stores and sends , follows redirects,
can follow links, and submit forms. Form fields can be populated and
submitted. Mechanize also keeps track of the sites that you have
visited as
a history.

Changes:

# Mechanize CHANGELOG

## 0.7.3

* Pages are now yielded to a blocks given to WWW::Mechanize#get
* WWW::Mechanize#get now takes hash arguments for uri parameters.
* WWW::Mechanize#post takes an IO object as a parameter and posts correctly.
* Fixing a strange zlib inflate problem on windows

* <http://mechanize.rubyforge.org/>

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Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/

Aaron Patterson wrote:
> mechanize version 0.7.3 has been released!

Thanks for mechanize--we use mechanize at work and it works well.

Question on strings:
I seem incapable of figuring out how to 'recreate' this string in
"string" format:

Here it is byte by byte

bytes = [100, 101, 110, 116, 226, 60, 56, 48, 62, 60, 57, 57, 62, 115,
32, 112, 114, 101, 118, 105, 111, 117]
for b in bytes do all << b; end # create the string
all == "dent?<80><99>s previou" # it compared with itself in string form


?
Thanks!
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On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 07:58:44AM +0900, Roger Pack wrote:
> Aaron Patterson wrote:
> > mechanize version 0.7.3 has been released!
>
> Thanks for mechanize--we use mechanize at work and it works well.

Thank you!

>
> Question on strings:
> I seem incapable of figuring out how to 'recreate' this string in
> "string" format:
>
> Here it is byte by byte
>
> bytes = [100, 101, 110, 116, 226, 60, 56, 48, 62, 60, 57, 57, 62, 115,
> 32, 112, 114, 101, 118, 105, 111, 117]
> for b in bytes do all << b; end # create the string
> all == "dent?<80><99>s previou" # it compared with itself in string form

Try using pack:

bytes = [100, 101, 110, 116, 226, 60, 56, 48, 62, 60, 57, 57, 62, 115,
32, 112, 114, 101, 118, 105, 111, 117]
bytes.pack('C*') == "dent?<80><99>s previou"

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http://tenderlovemaking.com/

Roger Pack wrote:
> Aaron Patterson wrote:
>> mechanize version 0.7.3 has been released!
>
> Thanks for mechanize--we use mechanize at work and it works well.
>
> Question on strings:
> I seem incapable of figuring out how to 'recreate' this string in
> "string" format:
>
> Here it is byte by byte
>
> bytes = [100, 101, 110, 116, 226, 60, 56, 48, 62, 60, 57, 57, 62, 115,
> 32, 112, 114, 101, 118, 105, 111, 117]
> for b in bytes do all << b; end # create the string
> all == "dent?<80><99>s previou" # it compared with itself in string form
>
>
> ?
> Thanks!


ascii_codes = [100, 101, 110, 116, 226, 60, 56, 48, 62, 60, 57, 57, 62,
115,
32, 112, 114, 101, 118, 105, 111, 117]
str = ""

for code in ascii_codes
str << code.chr
end

puts str
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On Mar 12, 4:58 pm, Roger Pack <rogerpack2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Aaron Patterson wrote:
> > mechanize version 0.7.3 has been released!
>
> Thanks for mechanize--we use mechanize at work and it works well.
>
> Question on strings:
> I seem incapable of figuring out how to 'recreate' this string in
> "string" format:
>
> Here it is byte by byte
>
> bytes = [100, 101, 110, 116, 226, 60, 56, 48, 62, 60, 57, 57, 62, 115,
> 32, 112, 114, 101, 118, 105, 111, 117]
> for b in bytes do all << b; end # create the string

bytes = [100, 101, 110, 116, 226, 60, 56, 48, 62, 60, 57, 57,
62, 115, 32, 112, 114, 101, 118, 105, 111, 117]

puts bytes.map{|n| n.chr}.join

Hi --

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Aaron Patterson wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 07:58:44AM +0900, Roger Pack wrote:
>> Aaron Patterson wrote:
>>> mechanize version 0.7.3 has been released!
>>
>> Thanks for mechanize--we use mechanize at work and it works well.
>
> Thank you!
>
>>
>> Question on strings:
>> I seem incapable of figuring out how to 'recreate' this string in
>> "string" format:
>>
>> Here it is byte by byte
>>
>> bytes = [100, 101, 110, 116, 226, 60, 56, 48, 62, 60, 57, 57, 62, 115,
>> 32, 112, 114, 101, 118, 105, 111, 117]
>> for b in bytes do all << b; end # create the string
>> all == "dent?<80><99>s previou" # it compared with itself in string form
>
> Try using pack:

In other words:

pack, Pack!

The roster of community members whose last names are core methods
(give or take a capital letter) is growing. There are at least three
at this point (Freeze, Keys, and Pack).


David

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Questions:

The following ways all recreate my original string, however I am having
trouble getting the comparison work to itself expressed in string
form--it's like the string form doesn't express all the inside chars or
something--am I missing something? Is there a way to recreate the
string along the lines of "dent?\226" and, as a follow up, is
complicated_string.inspect just not displaying the interior characters
right?


>> bytes = [100, 101, 110, 116, 226, 60, 56, 48, 62, 60, 57, 57, 62, 115,
?> 32, 112, 114, 101, 118, 105, 111, 117]
>> bytes.pack('C*') == "dent?<80><99>s previou"
=> false
>> str = ""
=> ""
>>
?> for code in bytes
>> str << code.chr
>> end
=> [100, 101, 110, 116, 226, 60, 56, 48, 62, 60, 57, 57, 62, 115, 32,
112, 114, 101, 118, 105, 111, 117]
>> str == "dent?<80><99>s previou"
=> false
>> str = bytes.map{|n| n.chr}.join
=> "dent?<80><99>s previou"
>> str == "dent?<80><99>s previou"
=> false

Just wondering if anybody can enlighten me.
Guess we just need more people named by Ruby names, huh?
Take care.
-R
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Roger Pack wrote:
> Questions:
>
> The following ways all recreate my original string, however I am having
> trouble getting the comparison work to itself expressed in string
> form--it's like the string form doesn't express all the inside chars or
> something--am I missing something? Is there a way to recreate the
> string along the lines of "dent?\226" and, as a follow up, is
> complicated_string.inspect just not displaying the interior characters
> right?
>
>
> >> bytes = [100, 101, 110, 116, 226, 60, 56, 48, 62, 60, 57, 57, 62, 115,
> ?> 32, 112, 114, 101, 118, 105, 111, 117]
> >> bytes.pack('C*') == "dent?<80><99>s previou"
> => false
> >> str = ""
> => ""
> >>
> ?> for code in bytes
> >> str << code.chr
> >> end
> => [100, 101, 110, 116, 226, 60, 56, 48, 62, 60, 57, 57, 62, 115, 32,
> 112, 114, 101, 118, 105, 111, 117]
> >> str == "dent?<80><99>s previou"
> => false
> >> str = bytes.map{|n| n.chr}.join
> => "dent?<80><99>s previou"
> >> str == "dent?<80><99>s previou"
> => false

irb(main):002:0> ?A
=> 65
irb(main):003:0> ??
=> 63
irb(main):004:0> 226.chr
=> "\342"
irb(main):005:0> puts 226.chr
Ã

The character whose ASCII code is 226 is not a question mark.
The ASCII code of a question mark is 63.

irb(main):008:0> puts [100, 101, 110, 116, 226].map{|n| n.chr}.join
dentÃ
irb(main):009:0> "342".to_i(8)
=> 226

Octal for 226 is 342.

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:56:28AM +0900, David A. Black wrote:
> Hi --
>
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Aaron Patterson wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 07:58:44AM +0900, Roger Pack wrote:
>>> Aaron Patterson wrote:
>>>> mechanize version 0.7.3 has been released!
>>>
>>> Thanks for mechanize--we use mechanize at work and it works well.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>>>
>>> Question on strings:
>>> I seem incapable of figuring out how to 'recreate' this string in
>>> "string" format:
>>>
>>> Here it is byte by byte
>>>
>>> bytes = [100, 101, 110, 116, 226, 60, 56, 48, 62, 60, 57, 57, 62, 115,
>>> 32, 112, 114, 101, 118, 105, 111, 117]
>>> for b in bytes do all << b; end # create the string
>>> all == "dent?<80><99>s previou" # it compared with itself in string form
>>
>> Try using pack:
>
> In other words:
>
> pack, Pack!
>
> The roster of community members whose last names are core methods
> (give or take a capital letter) is growing. There are at least three
> at this point (Freeze, Keys, and Pack).

I've submitted my patch to add the "patterson" method to Array, but I
haven't heard anything back.....

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http://tenderlovemaking.com/