Index

• detect example: weather.jsQueries the Yahoo! Weather RSS feed for the locations in a list of major cities to find the first location with weather conditions satisfying a simple temperature test criteria.

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• each example: weather_forecast.jsQueries the Yahoo! Weather RSS feed for locations in a list of major cities, displaying the returned weather conditions for each.

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• reduce example: dir_size.jsFinds the size of a specified directory, giving results for both the total size of the directory as well as the total size of the files contained in the directory.

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• spawn example: count_lines.jsFinds all files in a specified directory, opens each and counts the number of lines of text.

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• work example: remove_comments.jsReads a source file, removes any comments from the text and finally saves the amended text to a new file

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