# Carriage Return added during return of large string from cla **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [February 13, 2006, 9:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/carriage-return-added-during-return-of-large-string-from-cla/53705 "2006-02-13T21:39:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Xeno\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/958977/32.png) [@Xeno\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Xeno_C)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 9:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/carriage-return-added-during-return-of-large-string-from-cla/53705/1 "2006-02-13T21:39:54Z")
Say, this is a doosey: I’m constructing a string of markup for a CGI script, and I’m deciding to convert to print as I go rather than all at once, so I code, then start debugging, and to debug I dump markup. I then find that markup that looks good and clean just before I return from my class function (called by another class function if that’s important) ends up having sections polluted with carriage returns (not all of it, just those newlines which precede each line of one of the three concatenated strings from the three files which I uploaded from my primary files (javascript code). So I get all these files loaded, strings concatenated, and right before I return them from my old function I dump them and they look fine. Right after they get returned from the old function to the new one, this one section has CRs. What gives? Were they there all along and suddenly only appear from some magic? How could it otherwise be that the function, in it’s wild and unexpected massage of my markup, is guessing well enough to precede only those lines which correspond to one of my files? The code is non-trivial, and I cannot afford to pull it apart right now. I’ll try to make the time tonight. Presumably this is something you gurus know all about. xc