From: Rodrigo Bermejo <rodrigo.bermejo@...>
Date: 2008-06-05T09:14:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Removing Special Chars from a String

Jeff Miller wrote:
> Hello,
>  I'm pulling some fields out of an Oracle database and creating a CSV.
> However, some fields have \n and \r in them, which messes up my CSV. Is
> there a special function or a certain way I should try to get rid of
> them? I tried using chomp, chomp!, strip, and strip! but I can't seem to
> get it formatted the right way. An example string would be:
> 
> "\nhere is some text\r\n\r\nsome more text\n\r\n\reven more text"
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
>  - Jeff

If you want to delete them use this:

"\nhere is some text\r\n\r\nsome more text\n\r\n\reven more 
text".gsub(/\r|\n/,"")

You can use: require 'csv'  , it allows you to create/modify CSV with \r 
& \n without messing up the data.

-r.
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