From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-03-06T23:30:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Different behavior of '$,' output separator in Ruby 1.9

On 03/05/2010 08:46 PM, Caleb Clausen wrote:
> On 3/5/10, Alex DeCaria <alex.decaria@millersville.edu> wrote:
>> In switching to Ruby 1.9 from 1.8 I notice that the behavior of the '$,'
>> output separator has changed.  In Ruby 1.9 the output separator is
>> placed after a newline character, but this didn't happen with Ruby 1.8.
> 
> That doesn't seem right.

I agree.  1.9 writes one field separator too much.  This must be a bug.

Alex, separators are intended to be used a tad differently.  You would 
rather set the output record separator as well:

robert@fussel:~$ ruby -e '$,="@";$\="NL\n";print 1,2,3'
1@2@3NL
robert@fussel:~$

Kind regards

	robert

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