From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2010-05-16T09:48:05+09:00
Subject: Re: chomp like Perl operator in Ruby

On Saturday, May 15, 2010 04:34:20 pm Ben Bleything wrote:
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Parag Kalra <paragkalra@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there a chomp like Perl operator in Ruby using which I can literally
> 
> > remove new line characters as show below in my Perl script:
> There's a really easy way to answer this question for yourself:
> 
> $ ri chomp

Not the whole story. If you know you're not going to use the original string, 
you might consider chomp! instead.