From: Alan Moore <alan_moore@...>
Date: 2001-10-23T22:05:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23046] Re: chop and chomp

Guy Decoux wrote:
>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


I know that.  What I'm saying is that I shouldn't have to 
specify it--chomp should recognize any of "\r\n", "\n" or 
"\r" as a line ending and chop it off.  Just trying to match 
the value of $/ is too clumsy when the line separator can 
change from one document to the next, or even from one para-
graph to the next.  Ruby's chop method is much more useful 
than Perl's because of that one little enhancement.  Why not 
enhance chomp as well?


--Alan