From: Karl von Laudermann <doodpants@...>
Date: 2008-06-20T00:31:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Works on my machine, not on his machine after he edits

On Jun 19, 10:08 am, Todd Burch <pro...@burchwoodusa.com> wrote:
>
> This is the error he gets:
>
> Last login: Sat Jun 14 16:57:06 on console
> adam-fanns-power-mac-g5:~ adamfann$ cd desktop
> adam-fanns-power-mac-g5:desktop adamfann$ ruby phone_nums.rb
> phone_nums.rb:1: syntax error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting $end
> IO.foreawhen "S1if value[0,1]=="=" then value =
> value[1,value.length-1].to_s ; eputs "....done." ; Unknown record
> type:\n\t#{t}" ;
>

Offhand it looks to me like there's a problem with the script's line
endings, i.e. Ruby is expecting Unix line endings but the script has
DOS endings. The clue is that the error message seems to be claiming
that the error is on line 1, as though the entire script is one line.
I don't know why this would be a problem if both your computer and his
are Macs, though.