From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2005-12-30T07:46:06+09:00
Subject: Re: create file with LF (not CRLF) in windows

From: "Ben Anderson" <benanderson.us@gmail.com>
> 
> I have a bunch of files that I want to convert from CRLF to just LF. 
> How might I do this?  I'm testing with the following example file
> (steel.rb):
> 
> f = File.new("steel", "w")
> f.syswrite("steel\ncity");
> f.close

Try in "binary" mode. 

f = File.new("steel", "wb")

BTW, if you use blocks, you can omit the f.close:

File.new("steel", "wb") do |f|
  f.print("steel\ncity")
end


(See also IO#binmode )


Regards,

Bill