From: Dan Zwell <dzwell@...>
Date: 2007-04-30T11:57:11+09:00
Subject: Re: problem replacing newlines in regexp

Harry wrote:
> On 4/30/07, Mike Steiner <mikejaysteiner@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm trying to do a gsub ( "\n" , " " ) but none of the newlines are
>> replaced. Is there something special I have to do for newlines? (If it 
>> makes
>> a difference, I'm running under Windows.)
>>
>>
> 
> Try gsub!( "\n" , " " )
> 
> Harry
> 

You've probably gotta specify the multiline match option (the /m at the 
end):
line.gsub!(/\n/m, " ")

Dan