From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan <jeffp@...>
Date: 2002-02-04T13:17:26+09:00
Subject: Re: range and modification

On Feb 4, Sung Moon said:

>["jeff\r\n", "japhy"].each{|str| puts "<#{ str.chomp.inspect }>"}
>==>  <"jeff\r"> <"japhy">              It's not OK
>["jeff\r\n", "japhy"].each{|str| puts "<#{ str.chop.inspect }>"}
>==>  <"jeff"> <"japh">                      It's not OK
>
>So, we can use chomp for the line ending with \n,
>but we can not use either chop or chomp for line ending with \r\n.

Well, you can tell chomp() to use "\r\n".

  str = "jeff\r\n"
  puts "<#{ str.chomp("\r\n").inspect }>"

In fact, you could do

  str.chomp.chomp("\r")

if you're unsure of whether it's \n or \r\n (or even just \r).

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