From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2010-09-07T07:27:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with 'chomp'

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Barry O'gorman <barryjogorman@gmail.com> wrote:

> Simple program:
>
> while($_ != "q")
>    puts "Running..."
>    print "Enter q to quit: "
>    gets
>    chomp
> end
>
> However - getting the following in any progams in which I use 'chomp':
> 'undefined local variable or method 'chomp' for main: Object (NameError)

chomp, gsub, and others can only be used without a receiver in
one-liners. They are thought for making -p loops and such short.

In regular Ruby you normally use explicit variables (and in regular
Perl you normally also do).