From: Tim Kynerd <tim@...>
Date: 2003-02-13T01:23:52+09:00
Subject: Re: String frustration

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:37:35 +0900, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Tim Kynerd wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:16:03 +0900, Harry Ohlsen wrote:
>>
>>
>> The input file contains three tab-separated fields. The second field
>> needs to be able to contain an arbitrary number of newlines (which will
>> be realized as actual newlines, so to speak, when this field is later
>> printed out).
>>
>         [...]
>> Then, since there happen to be exactly three fields in each line,
>> there's the idea of tab-separating the "pieces" of the second field,
>> then reading
>>
> irb(main):044:0> puts (sprintf "%s", "x\ny") x
> y
> nil
> irb(main):045:0>
> 
> so  readlines.each {|line|
>         fields = line.split(/\t/);
>         fields.each {|field|
>             puts (sprintf "%s", field)
>         }
>         }

So using readlines rather than gets is the key. OK, that makes things
easier. Thanks!

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