From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2001-11-21T01:03:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25916] Why the appended '\n' in IO.readlines

Hi

I created a file and put a single character in it.
When reading it with IO.readlines, a newline is appended.

irb(main):001:0> IO.readlines("t")
["a\n"]

This behaviour also does not seem to be affected by
$/ either.

Why the newline?

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