newlines in array problem

From	Cyril Joe <cyril_jose@ymail.com>
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Is there a way to get rid of newlines in an array?
Example: array = ["hel\nlo", "bl\nah"]

I want the output to be new_array = ["hello", "blah"]

I tried:

array.each do |el|
  el.delete("\n")
end

But that didn't work. Can't figure this out. Any suggestions?

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newlines in array problem Cyril Joe <cyril_jose@ymail.com> - 2011-04-07 11:38 -0500
  Re: newlines in array problem Michel Demazure <michel@demazure.com> - 2011-04-07 11:43 -0500
  Re: newlines in array problem Jesús Gabriel y Galán <jgabrielygalan@gmail.com> - 2011-04-07 11:50 -0500
  Re: newlines in array problem Cyril Jose <cyril_jose@ymail.com> - 2011-04-07 13:08 -0500
  Re: newlines in array problem 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-07 13:34 -0500
    Re: newlines in array problem Jesús Gabriel y Galán <jgabrielygalan@gmail.com> - 2011-04-07 14:17 -0500
      Re: newlines in array problem 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-07 18:29 -0500

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