From: Dan Zwell <dzwell@...>
Date: 2007-05-01T04:14:09+09:00
Subject: Re: problem replacing newlines in regexp

Mike Steiner wrote:
> Okay, here's the birds-eye view:
> 
> I'm converting some database data from pure text to CSV format, and I need
> to replace the newlines with something else (a space or a slash).
> 
> Sample input record:
> 
> Field1=value1
> Field2=value2
> more stuff in Field2
> ----------          # end-of-record separator
> 
> Sample output record:
> 
> FIELD1,FIELD2
> value1,value2 / more stuff in Field2
> 
> 
> Does that help?
> 
> And the /m option only changes how "." is treated in a regexp, right?
> 
> Can I use somestring.gsub ( /$/ , " " ) instead of somestring.gsub ( /\n/ ,
> " " )?
> 

I guess you're right that /m isn't useful here. But gsub(/\n/, " ") does 
seem to do what you want. And you can't use /$/ here because when you 
try to substitute for $, it doesn't actually replace the end of the 
line, but adds to it (so what you wrote adds a space to the end of each 
line).

Dan