From: "A. Mcbomb" <atomicmcbomb@...>
Date: 2010-12-14T07:30:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Substituting New Line Character

thanks Jeremy,

that helped me figure out what I was doing wrong.

I appreciate it!

atomic


Jeremy Bopp wrote in post #968136:
> On 12/13/2010 02:14 PM, A. Mcbomb wrote:
>>
>> For "carriage return", I have tried using \r and \n but it puts those in
>> literally and does not force a carriage return when I open up the file
>> in VI.
>>
>> It seems like \n and \r are not working in this case.
>
> They do work actually:
>
> irb(main):001:0> a = "hello world"
> => "hello world"
> irb(main):002:0> a.gsub!(" ", "\n")
> => "hello\nworld"
> irb(main):003:0> puts a
> hello
> world
> => nil
>
> As you can see, the string gets the newline character inserted in place
> of the space character in this example.
>
> Can you reproduce this problem with a trivial example?  I suspect that
> if you try that you might find the problem.  What's going wrong is not
> readily apparent to me with the information available.
>
> -Jeremy

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