How to replace multiple newlines in a row with one newline using Ruby

Question

I have a script written in ruby. I need to remove any duplicate newlines (e.g.)

\\n
\\n
\\n

to

\\n

My current

Answer 1

This works for me:

#!/usr/bin/ruby

$s = "foo\n\n\nbar\nbaz\n\n\nquux";

puts $s

$s.gsub!(/[\n]+/, "\n");

puts $s