From: BearItAll <spam@...>
Date: 2005-02-03T19:30:50+09:00
Subject: chop problems

Hello, I'm new here, also fairly new to ruby, but I already have some 
very usfull scripts written with it.

But a problem I have over and over is that the 'chop' doesn't always 
work (for me) when dealing with files.

An example, the file '/tmp/dirtree' is the result of a class that 
traverses the directory tree, the lines are written using,

f.print "#{filename}\n"
(but I've also tried others writing methods)

Then next would be the class to read from that file.

DIRTREE='/tmp/dirtree'
IO.foreach(DIRTREE) { |@x|
         @x.chop
         print "Thisdir = #{@x}/*"
}

The output from print gives,

Thisdir = /home/whatever
/*

So chop hasn't removed the newline.

Do you use a definitive combination of file write and read that will 
always work, or is there another trick I don't know about yet.

PS: I' on UNIX/Linux.

Thankyou