From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2009-08-24T05:48:18+09:00
Subject: Re: 1.8.7 String#lines keeps new-line chars (say it ain't so in 1.9)



On Aug 23, 3:32 am, Brian Candler <b.cand...@pobox.com> wrote:

> Perhaps most importantly of all, if the newlines were stripped, there
> would be loss of data and it would be impossible to reconstruct the
> original file exactly from the members of the lines array (e.g.
> lines.join), as your example shows nicely.

How is there loss of data, when you know what was removed? Just join
("\n").