From: Sebastian Hungerecker Date: 2009-07-21T04:36:19+09:00 Subject: Re: including newlines in a .sub Am Montag 20 Juli 2009 21:30:06 schrieb Alan Munn: > line = line.sub(/ /, '\n') In ruby "\n" is a newline, while '\n' is backslash followed by an n. HTH, Sebastian