From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2008-01-05T08:41:16+09:00
Subject: Re: String#tr_s


On Jan 4, 2008, at 5:51 PM, J. Cooper wrote:
> Unfortunately I still don't see a practical use for the thing though.

# Remove blank lines from standard input
ruby -e 'puts ARGF.read.tr_s("\n", "\n")'

# convert the standard input into a list of words, one per line:
ruby -e 'puts ARGF.read.tr_s("^A-Za-z", "\n")'



Gary Wright