Transform Windows-style newlines to Unix-style newlines : gsub « String « Ruby






  1. Ruby
  2. String
  3. gsub

Transform Windows-style newlines to Unix-style newlines


"Line one\n\rLine two\n\r".gsub("\n\r", "\n")

# => "Line one\nLine two\n"

#Transform all runs of whitespace into a single space character
"\n\rThis string\t\t\tuses\n all\tsorts\nof whitespace.".gsub(/\s+/, " ")
# => " This string uses all sorts of whitespace."








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