From: krzysztof cierpisz <ciapecki@...>
Date: 2009-08-19T00:40:06+09:00
Subject: Re: fromdos dos2unix in ruby

> > 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
>

can you let me know how to close it properly?

thanks,
chris