From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2007-05-08T21:11:42+09:00
Subject: general purpose chomp?

I wonder why we do not have one. Or maybe I just overlooked something?

class String
  def lstripc c = ' \r\t\n'
    c = c.chr if c.kind_of? Integer
    idx = 0
    while c.include? self[idx]
      idx += 1
    end
    self[idx..-1]
  end
end

Thanks

Michal