From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2007-08-18T04:50:36+09:00
Subject: Re: removing something from the end of each item in an array

Hi --

On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Jano Svitok wrote:

> On 8/17/07, Chris Carter <cdcarter@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 8/17/07, Simon Schuster <significants@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> in this case a "\n"...
>>>
>>> ["blah\n", "la\n", "hooray\n"]
>>>
>>> array.collect { |x| x - "\n" } doesn't work, and I can't manage to
>>> find any methods which might do the trick.. pretty basic, but I'm
>>> still a beginner! thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> array.map {|x| x.chomp } will strip whitespace including new-lines.
>
> If you by chance want to do that in place, use map! instead of map.

Or each and chomp! which will prevent you from creating extra string
objects.


David

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