From: Philip Mateescu <pmateescu@...>
Date: 2004-07-03T01:33:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with one-liner

Thanks.

However, I'm temporary stuck with 1.6.8; I get the same result using 
your variation.

I think at this point I'm more curious as to why does it do it rather 
than how to fix it :)



Austin Ziegler wrote:
> 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


Best regards.
philip
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