From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-12-07T12:27:06+09:00
Subject: Re: File

From: "Daniel Carrera" <dcarrera@math.umd.edu>


> Thanks for the help.
>
> File.rename is behaving strangely.  The file name ended up have an extra
> non-printing character at the end.  Instead of naming the file "filename"
> it names it "filename^J".
>
> I don't know what character "^J" is.
>

J is the tenth letter of the English alphabet, so ^J is ASCII character #10,
which Ruby tells me (10.chr) is "\n".  13.chr is "\r".

Maybe a chomp! is in order.

Gavin