From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2004-05-11T06:32:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Line Ending Confusion on Windows

Thank you very much!

Zach Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Florian Gross [mailto:flgr@ccan.de]
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 5:29 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Line Ending Confusion on Windows


Zach Dennis wrote:

> By reading this output you would think it is in Unix format (LF), but it
is
> actually in DOS (CR/LF) file format.

Ruby automatically converts platform-specific (\r\n in your case)
newlines to platform-independent newlines (\n). This is a feature.

If you don't want any line ending conversations to happen just specify
the binary mode like this: File.open("filename", "rb") { ... }

Regards,
Florian Gross