From: Manuel Zabelt <ng@...>
Date: 2001-05-24T17:41:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15654] copy and paste ruby code under windows

Hello!

I have a Unix Server and a Windows client here. The server has a
directory from which apache starts ruby code with mod_ruby. This
directory is aviable for the client via Samba-Server.

On the client I do the follwing thing:
- I open my browser
- I go to the html version of "Programming Ruby - The PPG"
- I mark a piece of source code in the book and copy it to clipboard
- I open a text editor past in the source from clipboard and save the
file
  in the directory on the server
- I open a new browser window and try to start the script

The script fails it brings error messages like this:
ruby: /usr/local/export/http/ruby/test.rb:1: Invalid char `\240' in
expression (SyntaxError)
/usr/local/export/http/ruby/test.rb:1: Invalid char `\240' in expression
/usr/local/export/http/ruby/test.rb:2: Invalid char `\240' in expression
/usr/local/export/http/ruby/test.rb:3: Invalid char `\240' in expression
/usr/local/export/http/ruby/test.rb:3: Invalid char `\240' in expression
/usr/local/export/http/ruby/test.rb:3: Invalid char `\240' in expression
/usr/local/export/http/ruby/test.rb:3: Invalid char `\240' in expression
/usr/local/export/http/ruby/test.rb:4: Invalid char `\240' in expression
/usr/local/export/http/ruby/test.rb:4: Invalid char `\240' in expression
/usr/local/export/http/ruby/test.rb:4: Invalid char `\240' in expression
/usr/local/export/http/ruby/test.rb:4: Invalid char `\240' in expression
/usr/local/export/http/ruby/test.rb:4: Invalid char `\240' in expression

This never happend to me doing the same thing with Perl or PHP. Would is
the Problem?

thanks and greetings
  manu