From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2008-03-28T08:04:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Is possible Ruby to use CRLF instead of LF?

El Martes, 25 de Marzo de 2008, Iñaki Baz Castillo escribió:
> Hi, AFAIK Ruby uses LF = \n to detect newline. But now I'm coding a
> parser for a protocol that uses CRLF = \r\n for newline. In fact, \n
> is not considered a newline.
>
> Is it possible to get Ruby working with CRLF instead of LF?
>
> For example, I want to declare this string (for testing):
>
> example =<-- END_STRING
> Version 4
> Request_Type: call
> From: sssss
> END_STRING
>
> and I want that string to match \r\n at the end of each line instead
> of \n, is it possible?


Ok, using io.gets or io.readline I can set as parameter the lines separator 
string:

  ios.gets(sep_string=$/)

And in Ruby by default (at least in Linux) variable $/ is \n. But I can set 
this variable:
  $/ = "\r\n"
so I assume it would work.


-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo