From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2001-11-21T01:19:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25917] Re: Why the appended '\n' in IO.readlines

>>>>> "J" == Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> writes:

J> When reading it with IO.readlines, a newline is appended.

 Are you sure that this is ruby which has added the newline ?

pigeon% ls -l t
-rw-r--r--    1 ts       ts              1 Nov 20 17:14 t
pigeon% 

pigeon% irb
irb(main):001:0> IO.readlines("t")
["a"]
irb(main):002:0> 
pigeon% 


Guy Decoux