From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-05-08T21:33:43+09:00
Subject: Re: general purpose chomp?

On 5/8/07, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> wrote:
> 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
>
>
Some random thoughts
* Chomp strips on the RHS of the string, right?
* Sometimes I would just use sub /^<clever rgx>/, "" (or a potential
#delete as suggested in my RCR idea ;)
* I feel rgxs should be accepted as params
* I do not like the use a string with character set semantics (again
kindly have a look at the RCR thread where somebody smarter than me
has made a very good point about this).

That all said, this might actually be a nice feature to have, but
maybe there are just to many methods there, already doing *almost* the
same.
This is basically one of the reasons against my RCR idea too.

Cheers
Robert


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