From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2009-08-24T06:00:46+09:00
Subject: Re: 1.8.7 String#lines keeps new-line chars (say it ain't so in 1.9)

On Aug 23, 2009, at 3:48 PM, Trans wrote:

> 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").

What do we do for lines ending in \r\n?  Do we take both or just the  
\n?  I say both would be the most consistent, but then you don't know  
if you need to put back a \r\n or just an \n.

Also, how do you know if the last line ended in a \n?  join("\n")  
wouldn't put it back in either case.

James Edward Gray II