From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2009-10-06T18:32:26+09:00
Subject: Re: new line in string

2009/10/6 Jesús Gabriel y Galán <jgabrielygalan@gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Sharanya Suresh <sharankruthi@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> How to concatenate new line character to a string?
>>
>> Eg: str = "hello";
>>    str += '\n';
>>    str += "world"
>> I must get
>> hello
>> world
>> How it can be done?
>
> You nearly got it:
>
> str = "hello";
> str += "\n";
> str += "world"

BTW, if you want to concatenate to the same object, instead of
creating a new one, use this:

irb(main):012:0> str = "hello"
=> "hello"
irb(main):013:0> str << "\n"
=> "hello\n"
irb(main):014:0> str << "world"
=> "hello\nworld"

The previous idiom (+=) creates new strings.

Jesus.