From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-10-30T23:55:51+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23850] Re: String#each_line

Hello --

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Alan Moore wrote:

> This isn't right, is it?
>
> $ ruby -e '"1\n2\n\n3\n4".each {|s| p s}'
> "1\n"
> "2\n"
> "\n"
> "3\n"
> "4"
>
> $ ruby -e '"1\n2\n\n3\n4".each("") {|s| p s}'
> "1\n2\n\n"
> "3\n4"
>
> According to the pickaxe book:
>      If a zero-length record separator is supplied, the string
>      is split on \n characters, except that multiple successive
>      newlines are appended together.
>
> As I read it, that means the second script should output:
>
> "1\n"
> "2\n\n"
> "3\n"
> "4"
>
> ...shouldn't it?

Weirdly, it works if you use '' instead of "".


David

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