From: Erik Veenstra <pan@...>
Date: 2005-06-23T05:40:38+09:00
Subject: Too many CR's on Windows


If I run these scripts on Linux (replacing "dir" with "ls -l")
the outputs are what I expect. Both scripts print 5 and show a
file size of 5. But when I run them on Windows... Surprise,
surprise... The file sizes become 6! A hex editor tells me that
there are 2 CR's: 61 62 63 0D 0D 0A.

Why?

I'm a little bit confused now...

gegroet,
Erik V. - http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/

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   # Test with PUTS

 File.open("test.txt", "w") do |f|
   f.puts "abc\r\n"
 end

 File.open("test.txt", "r") do |f|
   puts f.read.length
 end

 system "dir test.txt"

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   # Test with WRITE

 File.open("test.txt", "w") do |f|
   f.write "abc\r\n"
 end

 File.open("test.txt", "r") do |f|
   puts f.read.length
 end

 system "dir test.txt"

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