From: Ben Anderson <benanderson.us@...>
Date: 2005-12-30T08:10:56+09:00
Subject: Re: create file with LF (not CRLF) in windows

yes - there it is.  Thanks Bill.

On 12/29/05, Bill Kelly <billk@cts.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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