From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2006-08-01T03:22:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Does Ruby need a "line separator" class?

On Jul 31, 2006, at 6:54 PM, Xavier Noria wrote:

>   normalized_text_area = text_area.gsub(/\015\012/, "\n").gsub(/ 
> \015/, "\n")

Just for the archives, this normalizes in Ruby with only one pass

   normalized_text_area = text_area.gsub(/\015\012?/, "\n")

though it is less explicit. Let me add now that we are on it that if  
the text is Unicode it may come with a few more codes for newlines.  
All in all this is a PITA like character encodings, but is what we've  
got for historical reasons.

-- fxn