How to insert a carriage return in a string

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Hello,

definitely a very newbie question... i have strings, possibly with

carriage returns in my application, and i want to save them with ‘\n’ in
litteral in my file (so that i’m guaranteed this string is on at most one
line), and then get back “\n” when deserializing.

But i don't quite get it for the deserialization part:

irb(main):001:0> myString = ‘a\nb’
“a\nb"
irb(main):002:0> myString.gsub(’\n’, “\n”)
“a\nb"
irb(main):003:0> myString.gsub(”\n”, “\n”)
“a\nb”

obviously i want to get “a\nb” (from “a\nb”). How I am supposed to do that?

thank you,

emmanuel

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myString.gsub(/\n/, “\n”)

rgds,
Edwin.

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On Tuesday 15 July 2003 13:46, Emmanuel Touzery wrote:

irb(main):003:0> myString.gsub(“\n”, “\n”)
“a\nb”

obviously i want to get “a\nb” (from “a\nb”). How I am supposed to do
that?

3

You should use doublequotes to build your strings
Check the differences btw " & ’

irb.log(main):001:0> f=File.open “tmp” ,“w”
irb.log(main):002:0> myString = ‘a\nb’
“a\nb”
irb.log(main):003:0> f << myString
irb.log(main):005:0> f.close
irb.log(main):007:0> r=cat tmp #Or File.open
“a\nb”

irb.log(main):011:0> myString = “a\nb”
“a\nb”
irb.log(main):012:0> f=File.open “tmp” ,“w”
irb.log(main):013:0> f << myString
irb.log(main):014:0> f.close
irb.log(main):016:0> r=cat tmp #Or File.open
“a\nb”

then you can >>>
r.split(“\n”).each {| line | p line }

-ronnie.

Emmanuel Touzery wrote:

···

Hello,

definitely a very newbie question… i have strings, possibly with
carriage returns in my application, and i want to save them with ‘\n’ in
litteral in my file (so that i’m guaranteed this string is on at most one
line), and then get back “\n” when deserializing.

But i don’t quite get it for the deserialization part:

irb(main):001:0> myString = ‘a\nb’
“a\nb”
irb(main):002:0> myString.gsub(‘\n’, “\n”)
“a\nb”
irb(main):003:0> myString.gsub(“\n”, “\n”)
“a\nb”

obviously i want to get “a\nb” (from “a\nb”). How I am supposed to do that?

thank you,

emmanuel

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