On 03/10/05, Collins, Justin <collinsj / seattleu.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm guessing the reason it worked after splitting and not before is due to you not using a multiline regexp. > I believe in 1.8 regexp was changed to automatically be multi-line...if I recall correctly. > So it would have to be like gsub(/\n/m,"") > I don't think so. The /m option more or less only turns on that . matches newline, so /\n/ and /\n/m would work alike. regards, Brian -- http://ruby.brian-schroeder.de/ Stringed instrument chords: http://chordlist.brian-schroeder.de/