Get matrix from textfile in Mathematica

Question

What's the easiest way to turn this text file into matrix? It has one row per line, where O means 0 and X means 1

Answer 1

$url = "http://hyperpublic.com/challenge2input.txt";
StringCases[Import[$url, "Lines"], {"O" -> 0, "X" -> 1}]

Answer 2

I first saved that text in a file tmp.txt.

In[180]:= words = ReadList["~danl/tmp.txt", Word];
vals = Map[Characters, words] /. {"O" -> 0, "X" -> 1};

In[182]:= vals[[1]]
Out[182]= {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, \
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, \
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, \
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, \
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}

Daniel Lichtblau Wolfram Research