Hi, Am Montag, 14. Sep 2009, 03:10:12 +0900 schrieb Alan Munn: > I have a script that processes text from the clipboard. Depending on the > application the text is copied from, (even on the same platform) lines > sometimes end in lf, cr, or possibly cr/lf. What's the best way of > normalizing the lines so that my script will work independent of the > actual newlines chosen? str.gsub /(\r?\n)|\r/, $/ Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de