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09/22/2017

05:14 PM Ruby Bug #13736 (Feedback): ruby -00 should be the same as setting $/=""

Try:
$ printf "1\n1b\n\n\n\n\n2\n2b\n\n3\3b" | ruby -00 -F"\n" -lane 'END{p $.}'
4
vs
$ printf "1\n1b\n\n\n\n\n2\n2b\n\n3\3b" | ruby -F"\n" -lane 'BEGIN{$/=""}; END{p $.}'
3
vs
$ printf "1\n1b\... dawg (Andrew Dumke)

04:58 PM Ruby Bug #13736: ruby -00 should be the same as setting $/=""

This does not seem to be corrected on ruby 2.4.2p198 (2017-09-14 revision 59899) [x86_64-darwin16]
Exactly the same results as before. dawg (Andrew Dumke)

07/10/2017

05:08 AM Ruby Bug #13736: ruby -00 should be the same as setting $/=""

Please see Stackoverflow https://stackoverflow.com/q/44999907/298607 for a better / more complete description. dawg (Andrew Dumke)

05:06 AM Ruby Bug #13736 (Closed): ruby -00 should be the same as setting $/=""

Suppose you have blocks of text separated by 2 or more \n. A typical text file with records defined by a black line.
Given:
```
$ cat lines
f1, r1
f2, r1 then 2 \n:
f1, r2 then 3 \n:
f1,r3
f2,r3 then 4 \n:
f1, r... dawg (Andrew Dumke)