From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2006-02-03T05:08:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Chomping and stomping

Jacob Fugal wrote:
> On 2/2/06, William James <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > def chomper
> >   puts "Hit me!"  while gets  and  $_.chomp! != "qq"
> >   $_  if $_
> > end
>
> This will always loop until EOF and then return nil. $_.chomp! (as
> opposed to $_.chomp) returns nil, and nil != "qq".
>

It works under ruby 1.8.2 (2004-05-19) [i386-mswin32].
Did you test it?   The code you posted earlier doesn't work:

  #!/usr/bin/ruby -w
  def chomper
    xx = gets.chomp
    until xx == "qq"
      puts "hit me with a squirell!"
      xx
    end
  end

  puts chomper

Always test the code that you post, please.

> Jacob Fugal
>
> PS. And let's not golf with this please...

If you don't like golf, why watch it?

def chomper
  puts "Hit me!"  while gets.chomp! != "qq"
  $_
end