From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>
Date: 2009-10-06T19:43:35+09:00
Subject: Re: new line in string

Hi,

Am Dienstag, 06. Okt 2009, 18:32:26 +0900 schrieb Jesús Gabriel y Galán:
> 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:
> >> How to concatenate new line character to a string?
> >>
> >> Eg: str = "hello";
> >>    str += '\n';
> >>    str += "world"
> 
> BTW, if you want to concatenate to the same object, instead of
> creating a new one, use this:
> 
> str = "hello"
> str << "\n"
> str << "world"
> #=> "hello\nworld"
> 
> The previous idiom (+=) creates new strings.

Depending on what you're doing maybe this is a good choice:

  %w(hello world).join $/

Bertram


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