From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2008-03-27T01:59:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Is possible Ruby to use CRLF instead of LF?

On Mar 26, 2008, at 17:39 , mrhassell wrote:

> The dot matches a single char, no care 4 what the character is. The
> exception is newline characters. In regex things, the dot will 'not
> match' a newline character by default. So by default, the dot is short
> for the negated character class [^\n] (UNIX regex flavors) or [^\r\n]
> (Windows regex flavors)...

Careful, the dot does match \r. The dot is exactly [^\n] (modulus /m).

What happens is that in ordinary line-oriented, portable code, you  
don't see a single \r in Ruby strings. The CRs on Windows are on the  
disk but don't go up because the I/O layer filters them.

-- fxn