Bug #7979: File.foreach splits on 'r' in windows

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: 1.9.3

[ninjabus (Steve Kingston)]

=begin
Calling (({File.foreach('somefile.txt', "r")})) on a windows platform adds newline characters after each lower case (({'r'})), splitting the read lines after each instance.
Reading the following file

This contains r characters
Wreck it Ralph

outputs

This contains r
character
s
Wr
eck it Ralph
=end

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Description updated (diff)
• Status changed from Open to Rejected

The second argument is a line separator to split the input.