From: Armin Roehrl <armin@...>
Date: 2001-08-18T05:46:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19958] Re: reading file line by line


> Im reading in a file through a block then a file.each_line {|line|
> Then i need to make sure that the \n\r's are striped.  At the moment im
> doing
> line = line.gsub(/[\n\r]/, "").  Was wondering if there was a better way to
> do it.

what about:
 
line.chomp!

http://www.rubycentral.com/ref/ref_c_string.html#chomp_oh

alternatively, you might also want to look at chop.

-- 
Armin.

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