From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-07-03T01:22:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with one-liner

On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 01:13:17 +0900, Philip Mateescu
<pmateescu@novosadhayes.com> wrote:
> My one liner sample:
> 
> $ ping localhost | ruby -e '$<.readlines.each { |line|  line.chomp!();
> puts(line + "---\n");  }'
> 
> I would expect it to put --- at the end of each line. Instead it
> replaces the first 3 chars of each line with "---"

Using 1.8.1, I have no problems if I change it to:

ping localhost | ruby -e "$<.readlines.each { |line| puts
%Q(#{line.chomp}---) }"

#puts automatically places a \n at the end of the line, and it's
better to use interpolation. The reason that I switched from -e '...'
to -e "..." is because I tested it on Windows.

-austin
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