From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2010-10-04T17:13:25+09:00
Subject: Re: save only first line from string?

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Terry Michaels <spare@frigidcode.com> wrote:
> Hi. What's the most simple and elegant way to remove all the contents of
> a String except for the first line? (Assume string consist of one line,
> multiple lines, or no lines, and assume that we don't know which OS we
> are on.)

irb(main):004:0> a = "abcde\nfghwrferf\nqwerim1o34ir1"
=> "abcde\nfghwrferf\nqwerim1o34ir1"
irb(main):005:0> a.first
=> "abcde\n"
irb(main):006:0> a.first.chomp
=> "abcde"

Jesus.