From: Wes Gamble <weyus@...>
Date: 2006-05-18T01:43:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple regexp: Matching CRLF in a Windows file

Apparently just matching on \n works.

So, Ruby is really smart enough to use \n as a platform-independent 
newline character?  Impressive.

Wes

Wes Gamble wrote:
> All,
> 
> I'm trying to do subs on CRLF in a Windows file, but I'm having a time 
> of it trying to get the regexp working.
> 
> I am sure that I have a text file with Windows newlines (CRLF) embedded 
> in it
> 
> This doesn't work:
> 
> newline = "\C-J\C-M"
> puts IO.read(@document.path) =~ /#{newline}/
> 
> This doesn't work:
> 
> newline = "\n\r"
> puts IO.read(@document.path) =~ /#{newline}/
> 
> Do I need to escape the control characters somehow so that I can match 
> on them?
> 
> I'm assuming it's possible to use control characters in a regexp.
> 
> Thanks,
> Wes


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