While gsub!

Is there a better way to perform multiple substitutions to a string
than this?

string = ‘/…/…/…//…////…/…/etc/passwd’

while string.gsub!(/..//,’’)
end

it’s working as is, but seems odd to me to have an empty loop… I’m
just playing with the TCPServer class…

#!/usr/bin/ruby
require ‘socket’

port = 80
listen = ‘0.0.0.0’
header = “HTTP/1.1 200/OK\r\nContent-type: text/html\r\n\r\n”

httpd = TCPServer.new(listen, port)
while session = httpd.accept
request = session.gets
address = session.addr[3]
puts “#{address} #{request}”
askfile = request.scan(/GET (.*) HTTP/).to_s
while askfile.gsub!(/…//,’’)
end
reqfile = ‘/var/www’ + askfile
reqfile += ‘index.html’ if reqfile == ‘/var/www/’
if File.exists?(reqfile)
file = File.new(reqfile, ‘r’)
output = file.readlines
file.close
else
output = ‘Not Found’
output += “

Unfortunately, “#{askfile}” does not exist on
this server…


output += ‘

perhaps you need more fortune:


output += “

#{/usr/games/fortune}



output += ‘’
end
session.print header
session.print output
session.close
end

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 09:14:59AM +0900, [email protected] wrote:

Is there a better way to perform multiple substitutions to a string
than this?

string = ‘/…/…/…//…////…/…/etc/passwd’

while string.gsub!(/..//,’’)
end

irb(main):001:>> string = ‘/…/…/…//…////…/…/etc/passwd’
=> “/…/…/…//…////…/…/etc/passwd”
irb(main):002:0> File.expand_path(string)
=> “/etc/passwd”

marcel

On Jul 18, 5:18 pm, “Marcel Molina Jr.” [email protected] wrote:

=> “/…/…/…//…////…/…/etc/passwd”
irb(main):002:0> File.expand_path(string)
=> “/etc/passwd”

marcel

Marcel Molina Jr. [email protected]

that’s great! thank you