From: Alan Davies <NOSPAMcs96and@...>
Date: 2003-05-21T01:33:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in IO#write under windows

I've fixed my truncate problems by using IO#pos instead, but this is a 
bug that needs to be adresssed surely?

In article <MPG.1934631948ebed5c989680@news.datastream.com>, 
NOSPAMcs96and@yahoo.co.ukNOSPAM says...
> If you write line breaks to a file under windows, the write and syswrite 
> methods count a line break as one character, not two, meaning that the 
> value returned is incorrect.
> 
> e.g...
> 
> File.open('arr.txt', 'w') do |file|
>   arr = [ "123\n", "456" ]
>   puts file.write(arr)
> end
> 
> This bit of code displays the number 7 on the screen.  The actual size 
> of the file is 8.  This is causing me problems with File#truncate, 
> becuase I'm truncating too much of the file!
>