View Source Code in Whois.net

[Chris Berry]

I am trying to view the source code in whois.net using the following
code:


require 'open-uri'
open("http://whois.net/whois/qoxax.com") {|f|
text = f.read
lines = f.readlines
text = lines.join
text.gsub!(/\s+/," ")

puts text

}

The whois.net view source has TONS of whitespace at the beginning and
end which I am guessing is causing this to come up blank when I run this
code but perhaps you have better ideas / luck?

 

[Redd Vinylene]

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gsub!(/>\s+</, '><') maybe?

 

[Jack Bauer]

The whois.net view source has TONS of whitespace at the beginning and
end which I am guessing is causing this to come up blank when I run this
code but perhaps you have better ideas / luck?

string.lstrip.rstrip will get rid of a lot of it.

 

[Mark Thomas]

Why are you trying to view the source? You're not planning to parse
HTML with regular expressions, are you? There are much better
libraries out there for that.

-- Mark.

 

[7stud --]

Mark,

Please advise on libraries??

hpricot, nokogiri, watir