From: Stephen Bannasch <stephen.bannasch@...>
Date: 2009-08-23T23:05:14+09:00
Subject: Re: 1.8.7 String#lines keeps new-line chars (say it ain't so in  1.9)

At 9:58 PM +0900 8/23/09, David A. Black wrote:
>Hi --
>
>On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Intransition wrote:
>
>>Ruby 1.8.7 p72
>>
>>  >> "A\nB\nC".lines.to_a
>>  => ["A\n", "B\n", "C"]
>>
>>Please, tell me that's a mishap, and not how 1.9 works. I'd expect:
>>
>>  >> "A\nB\nC".lines.to_a
>>  => ["A", "B", "C"]
>
>String#lines is essentially the same as String#each, which is gone in
>1.9. You get, instead of #each and friends (Enumerable), a whole
>toolkit of ways to enumerate through strings:
>
>   * lines
>   * bytes
>   * chars
>   * codepoints
>
>There's no auto-chomping, but there never has been in any string
>operation I can think of.

It isn't the same but in many places where I might use String#lines 
I'd use code like this in Ruby 1.8.6:

   >> "first line\nsecond line\nthird line".split("\n")
   => ["first line", "second line", "third line"]