My code hangs

Ruby
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it DID (kind of) work and even exit, but only after going through one
log, rather than appending ALL of them, formatted, into a file like I
wanted, so I added line 13, and a corresponding end at the bottom. :stuck_out_tongue:
now it makes the main_text.txt, but hangs. I’m new to
ruby/programming, just thought this’d be a fun learning project.

http://pastebin.com/m1b60ac85

for the future: formatting based way more on keywords in the dialogue,
as well as possibly project gutenberg searches of related/random text
for narrative, and finally using lulu’s API (http://api.lulu.com/) or
createspace, if I can find an API for them, to automatically publish
and purchase a copy. could TOTALLY be extended to have commercial
value in record-keeping, for companies that use IM and RSS, if that
were implemented, which it might be anyway because hey, blogs. Title =
Chaptertitle. yeah they’d be short chapters, but I like richard
brautigan and thousands of livejournal users would be aching to see
themselves in print, I’m sure. :slight_smile:

any help in any of these areas is appreciated! thank you kindly.

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On 9/24/07, Simon S. [email protected] wrote:

it DID (kind of) work and even exit, but only after going through one
log, rather than appending ALL of them, formatted, into a file like I
wanted, so I added line 13, and a corresponding end at the bottom. :stuck_out_tongue:
now it makes the main_text.txt, but hangs.

at line 30 you have:

   until y.length > 9
           log_array.delete_at(x)
   end

as far as I can tell, the delete_at can’t affect y.length, so this
will loop forever if y.length <= 9.

-Adam

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thank you, this fixed this problem