From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2003-07-16T19:01:01+09:00
Subject: basic doubts on "\n"

I am trying to get the picture about how "\n" works in Ruby.

Since this is somewhat difficult to concrete in a single question I have 
broken the issue in a few ones. Let's see how it works.

* Does "\n" play the role of logical newline? In a broad sense, if that 
was the case portable line-oriented code would use "\n" as newline for 
reading and writing through non-binmoded streams. (True in Perl, false 
in Java.)

* Is "\n".length == 1 no matter the platfrom? (True in Perl, true in 
Java.)

* Does "\n" == "\x0a" hold no matter the platform? (False in Perl, true 
in Java.)

* Does "\n" get translated by the underlying I/O system back and forth 
to native newlines in non-binmoded streams? (True in Perl, false in 
Java.)

Thank you very much, and regards from warm Barcelona,

-- fxn