From: Damien WYART <damien.wyart@...>
Date: 2001-10-10T23:11:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22385] Re: [Newbie] Switching from Perl : shuffling

* Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> in comp.lang.ruby:

> Ruby leaves the line terminations on when it reads. We specified a
> line terminator of "\n%\n", so you get this at the end of every
> 'line'.

When testing with small files, I notice that there is "nil" displayed
sometimes. Strange !

For example, with the testfile

---
1
%
2
%
3
%
---

I sometimes get

---
2
%
3
%
nil
1
%
---

Why ?
-- 
DW