[Win32utils-devel] IO.read questions

[Luis Lavena]

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Daniel Berger <djberg96 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> ruby 1.9.3p125 (both mingw and mswin)
>
> Is this a bug? I've got a file, test.txt, that contains nothing but this:
>
> This is line 1
> This is line 2
> This is line 3
>
> I ran these snippets of code:
>
> IO.read('test.txt')          # => "This is line 1\nThis is line
> 2\nThis is line 3\n"
> IO.read('test.txt', nil)     # => "This is line 1\nThis is line
> 2\nThis is line 3\n"
> IO.read('test.txt', nil, 0) # => "This is line 1\r\nThis is line
> 2\r\nThis is line 3\r\n"
>
> Why are the native line endings retained if I specify an offset? Ruby
> 1.8.x doesn't do that, btw.
>

A regression fixed in patch level 194

Root issue is caused by newline universal:

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6271

Along other like File#pos

Cheers,
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Luis Lavena
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