From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-08-19T00:21:07+09:00
Subject: Re: fromdos dos2unix in ruby

2009/8/18 krzysztof cierpisz <ciapecki@gmail.com>:
>>
>> Well, you would read from the input file, replace the dos/windows line
>> endings with unix ones and write to the output file.
>>
>
> I tried with following dos2unix.rb script
>
> ###### dos2unix.rb ######################
> out = File.open(ARGV[1],"w")
>
> File.open(ARGV[0]).each {|line|
>  out << line.gsub!(/\r$/,'')
> }
>
> out.close
> #########################################
>
> this:
> ruby dos2unix.rb u8nl_utf8_tab.dos.txt d
>
> works fine on Linux (d with length 408 bytes) but not on Windows, on
> Windows d is a file with 0 bytes

You are not closing the File object properly so your output might
never get flushed to disk...

Cheers

robert

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