From: Lyle Johnson <ljohnson@...>
Date: 2002-03-09T03:00:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with Array.Join

> I'm calling array.join('\n') and what I'm getting is one string made up of
> all the array strings separated by the characters '\' and 'n', rather than
a
> newline character.  Why isn't a newline character the separator?

Escape codes like newline (\n) aren't evaluated when the string is in single
quotes. Try putting your separator for join() in double quotes and you
should get the desired results:

    irb(main):001:0> words = ['this', 'that', 'whatnot']
    ["this", "that", "whatnot"]
    irb(main):002:1> puts words.join('\n')
    this\nthat\nwhatnot
    nil
    irb(main):003:1> puts words.join("\n")
    this
    that
    whatnot
    nil

Hope this helps,

Lyle