Ruby Forex Code Part 4

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# Retreive and format currency pairs
# Matt Hayford
# October 2008
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class RateBlotter
require 'net/http'

attr_accessor :rates, :parsedrates

def getrate(key)
query = Hash.new
query['Key'] = key
url = URI.parse('http://api.efxnow.com/DEMOWebServices2.8/Service.asmx/GetRatesBlotter')
res = Net::HTTP.post_form(url, query)
@rates = /.*>.*\s*.*>(.*)<.*/.match(res.body)[1]
end

def parserate
parsedrates = @rates
@rates = parsedrates.gsub(/\\/, " ")
parsedrates = @rates
@rates = parsedrates.gsub(/\$/, "\n")
# do bunch of fancy parsing to remove delimiters and format info
# return @rates = @parsedrates
end

def returnrate
return @rates
end

end