Peter Bailey wrote:
> A number of you all helped me to get to the point of actually being able 
> to write a RUBY script, period. Now, I'm trying to concatenate all that 
> I've learned and put it into an iterative script. Here it is. It doesn't 
> error out, but, it also doesn't do anything! It just executes. I do 
> believe my regex is legitimate. I want it to parse postscript files and 
> then pipe information about blank pages in those .ps files to other 
> files, the ".pageinfo" files.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Dir.chdir("c:/scripts/ruby/temp")
> psfiles = Dir.glob('*.ps')
>   numberofblanks = []
>   blankpages = []
> psfiles.each do |psfile|
>   File.read(psfile).scan(/\%\%Page: ([\d()]+) 
> (\d{1,5})\n\%\%PageBoundingBox:
>     \d{1,5} \d{1,5} \d{1,5} \d{1,5}\n\%\%PageOrientation:/) do
>     blankpages.push($1)
>     numberofblanks.push($2)
>     unless numberofblanks.empty?
>       infofile = File.basename(psfile, '.ps')
>       File.open("infofile + .pageinfo", "w") do |writetext|
>         writetext << "Number of blanks in this PDF: 
> #{numberofblanks.length}\n"
>         << "Blank Pages in This PDF: #{blankpages.join(' ')}\n"
>     end
>   end
> end


Never mind. I actually figured this out myself. I'm so proud. Thanks, 
anyway!

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