From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-11-25T17:10:05+09:00
Subject: Re: regexp working with mixed lines endings

Une b辿vue wrote:

/ ...

> is their a special option able to work with all kind of endings ?

Sure. For mixed Windows and Unix/Linux line endings, just delete the
carriage returns:

data.gsub!{/\r/,"")

> 
> my regexps :
> 
> rgxstart=Regexp.new("<BWFXML>")
> rgxstop=Regexp.new("</BWFXML>")
> 
> 
> the comparaison i do :
> 
> rgxstart === l.chomp
> 
> l being :
> 
> File.open(<the sound file>).each { |l| ...}

Try this instead:

data = File.read(filename)

data.gsub!(/\r/,"")

array = []

data.split("\n").each do |line|
  # process lines here
  array << line
end

By using this approach, all your XML lines will be made uniform. At the end
of the processing, you will need to reintegrate the lines into a block for
storage:

data = array.join("\n")

file.open(filename,"w") { |f| f.write data }

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Paul Lutus
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