From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2001-10-23T21:22:46+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23043] Re: chop and chomp

>>>>> "A" == Alan Moore <alan_moore@gmx.net> writes:

A> I notice that String#chop is a little more intelligent 
A> than its Perl equivalent, in that, if the last character 
A> of the string is "\n", it checks whether the next-to-last 
A> character is "\r" and, if so, chops them both off.  This 

 chop is defined as 
    http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/man-1.4/String.html#chop

 Chops off the last character of the string (2 characters if the last
 characters are "\r\n").  

A> separators used by different OS's.  What I'm wondering is, 
A> why doesn't String#chomp work the same way?

  chomp([rs]) 
  chomp!([rs]) 

  Chops off the line ending of the string, which is specified by the
  rs. The default value of the rs is the value of the variable $/. 

 You can specify `rs' for #chomp, $/ is just the default value


Guy Decoux