From: Wes Gamble <weyus@...>
Date: 2006-08-01T00:40:18+09:00
Subject: Does Ruby need a "line separator" class?

I've run into a problem where Ruby can't handle newlines on Windows 
because the regexp is explicitly looking for \n and not \r\n.

In the Java world, there is a system property to represent line 
separator so that you can write code that is cross-platform with respect 
to line separation on Unix/Windows/Mac.  Is there an equivalent 
abstraction of the newline character in Ruby?  If not, where does it 
belong?

For some reason, I thought I read somewhere that sometimes the "\n" 
character is overloaded in this way (to represent a "newline" regardless 
of platform), but not sure if I'm misremembering.

Thanks,
Wes

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