From: Jay Levitt <jay+news@...>
Date: 2007-10-01T06:10:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Detecting number ranges

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:27:28 -0700, William James wrote:

> Change
> ary = DATA.readlines
> to
> ary = DATA.readlines ; p ary
> and see what you get.
> Your lack of output could be caused by an added space at the end
> of each data line.

Ah, close - it's a Windows carriage return which Cygwin doesn't like.
That's what happens when I use some Cygwin and some Windows apps
simultaneously.  I was getting

["database 8 is on server 7\r\n",...\

And while "7\n"[/\d+$/] == "7", "7\r\n"[/\d+$/] == nil, at least on Cygwin.

Thanks.

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