Remove newline characters in d anchors

Ruby
1

hi

i am working on this code where i need to list the files in a dir and
store it in a xml, which i managed to do. however in the generated xml
there are newline characters (\n) appearing before and after the actual
text value of each node.

below is the code i am using

require ‘rexml/document’
require ‘find’

doc = REXML::Document.new
main = doc.add_element ‘main’

main.attributes[‘name’] = “”

Find.find(’./’){|path| puts path[2,path.length] }

Find.find(’./’){|path|
if path != ‘./dirlisting.rb’
if ! File::directory? ( path )
newfile = main.add_element ‘file’
newfile.text = path[2,path.length]
end
end
}

outfile = open(‘dirlist.xml’, ‘w’)
doc.write(outfile, 0)

open(‘dirlist.xml’, ‘w’) { |f| f << doc}

below is the sample output in the xml wid newline characters before &
after each text value within the anchors

340330_10150281813536470_96585976469_8235727_1982670115_o.jpg 507999446_JUN2009.pdf 8.10669690.00.00.100193.pdf Asset List_Tracker.xls BM.jpg BM2.JPG

how can i get rid of those line breaks in each nodes and have a clean
node with just the text value?

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On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:54 AM, mythpills P. [email protected]
wrote:

require ‘find’
newfile = main.add_element ‘file’
newfile.text = path[2,path.length]

I think you want

newfile.text = path[2…path.length]

or

newfile.text = path[2…-1]

That won’t solve your nl issue but is more correct.

end
end
}

outfile = open(‘dirlist.xml’, ‘w’)
doc.write(outfile, 0)

You do not close the file properly. Better do

open(‘dirlist.xml’, ‘w’) {|outfile| doc.write(outfile)}

how can i get rid of those line breaks in each nodes and have a clean
node with just the text value?

You want REXML::Formatters::Pretty#compact

irb(main):001:0> doc = REXML::Document.new
“123444”
=> … </>
irb(main):002:0> fmt = REXML::Formatters::Pretty.new
=> #<REXML::Formatters::Pretty:0x10615890 @indentation=2, @level=0,
@ie_hack=false, @width=80, @compact=false>
irb(main):003:0> fmt.compact
=> false

irb(main):004:0> fmt.compact=true
=> true
irb(main):005:0> fmt.write(doc, $stdout)

123

444

=> [<?xml ... ?>, … </>]

irb(main):006:0> fmt.compact=false
=> false
irb(main):007:0> fmt.write(doc, $stdout)


123



444


=> [<?xml ... ?>, … </>]

Kind regards

robert

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i just made the first 2 edits which u suggested and it worked :slight_smile:

Thanks Robert for being there on every posts of mine and putting some
sense in my empty head

w.r.t 2 the format code not sure how i can implement in my program… but
anyways the prob of newline is resolved.

will look forward to your support in my ruby adventure. respect!