From: nobu@...
Date: 2006-06-23T10:31:49+09:00
Subject: Re: gets, etc (was RE: Newbie Questions)

Hi,

At Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:06:38 +0900,
Pe�a, Botp <botp@delmonte-phil.com> wrote in [ruby-talk:198616]:
> fr Azalar:
> # Makes sense now that i've seen what is happening behind the scenes.
> # I come from a Java background but didn't think to test if it 
> # was adding carriage returns to the end of the string.
> 
> that is a faq but you may have a point.
> others would argue that "hey, i have to enter a newline
> otherwise you wont accept it, and now you're telling me to
> chop it off?!".

Double Ctrl-D sends a text without a newline.

> maybe, we can we have #gets2 or #input (for lack of better a
> word) that automatically chops newline if there is one,
> orthogonal to #puts putting one if there is none.

a) use readline to input
b) use Regexp to match

-- 
Nobu Nakada