From: Jim Knowlton <jknowlton525@...>
Date: 2009-02-03T02:39:58+09:00
Subject: Question on reading text files in Windows

I am running Ruby 1.86 on Windows, and having trouble reading in some
text files.  For some text files, if I do something simple like:

myfile = File.open("logfile.log")
contents = myfile.read()
puts contents

I get each character seperated by a space, such as:

”= = =   V e r b o s e   l o g g i n g   s t a r t e d :   1 / 2 8 / 2
0 0 9
 1 3 : 4 5 : 0 6     B u i l d   t y p e :   S H I P   U N I C O D E

If I bring up the file in even a bare-bones editor (such as VIM), I
get the file as it normally is (without any extraneous spaces).  Does
anyone know why this would be, or how I can work around it?  It's
causing issues as I am trying to write a script to search for a
particular string of text, and obviously it isn't found, even though
it should be.

Thanks,

Jim