[Newbies] problems pulling data from a url..

[David Mitchell]

(HTTPSocket httpGet: aUrl) contents

I know we Smalltalkers like to talk about how no one ever gets confused
about dynamic types, but it does happen ;-).

The stream has the text you want. May want to familiarize yourself with core
methods on the Stream hierarchy.

Pushing the Stream through a ByteArray conversion is invoking printString.

Your trouble with getting a modified string using replaceAll: is again a
subtle typing error:

Reading the comment for #replaceAll:with:
"Replace all occurences of oldObject with newObject"

But, Strings are collections of characters, not strings. Compare:

'foo' replaceAll: 'f' with: 'g'
'foo' replaceAll:  $f with: $g

Take a look at senders of #findString:

Many of them do replacements of substrings.

David Mitchell
http://www.withaguide.com

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:44 AM, sergio_101 <sergiolist at village-buzz.com>wrote:

> i am currently using HTTPSocket to pull data from a url...
>
> looks like this:
>
>        | data |
>        data := String
>                                fromByteArray: (HTTPSocket httpGet: anUrl).
>
> i end up with a string that has my desired data (a JSON string), but,
> it's preceeded by this:
>
> 'a RWBinaryOrTextStream ' '<here is the stuff i need>' ' '
>
> i am trying to lop off the first part by doing:
>
> jsonData := dataString replaceAll:  'RWBinaryOrTextStream' with: 'test'.
>
> just to see if i can touch the string..
>
> but no matter what i do, i can't get any parts of the string to be
> raplaced..
>
> it almost looks like there are three strings in there..
>
> the RWBinaryOrTextStream one, the one i need, and an empty one..
>
> is there a better way to pull a url?
>
> thanks!
>
>
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