On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Conrad Taylor<[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 2009/7/10 Zhao Yi <[email protected]>: >> > >> > I got a string from "text_area_tag". Because the browser working on >> > windows while my rails server working on linux, there is ^M at the end >> > of each line. What I want to do is to remove this character and separate >> > the string to an array. How can I do this? >> > >> >> Can I just check that I understand correctly. You have a string with >> embedded ^M characters and you wish to turn this into an array of >> strings? If that is correct then I would suggest looking at >> String#split. > > Colin, he wants to first remove the ^M from the string. Then he wants to > split > the string. > -Conrad
The ^M is a line feed shown in an editor such as vim because Linux only needs a carriage return (\n) You could do the following: "one\r\ntwo\nthree\rfour".split(/[\n\r]+/) which will split the string into "lines" at every combinations of carriage return and/or line feed Andrew Timberlake http://ramblingsonrails.com http://MyMvelope.com - The SIMPLE way to manage your savings --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
