From: John Sikora <john.sikora@...>
Date: 2010-10-04T23:18:09+09:00
Subject: Re: save only first line from string?

Adam Prescott wrote:
>>>> "a string\nwith multiple\nlines".split(/\n|\r\n/)[0]
>> => "a string"
> 
> "a string\nwith multiple\nlines".split(/\r?\n/).first
> 
> I was somewhat amazed to find not the split solution, but the rather
> wild (g)sub solutions as the first responses!

I, perhaps erroneously, thought that the OP wanted to modify the string. 
If so, the split method seems somewhat inelegant, perhaps:

string = string.split(/\n|\r\n/)[0]. So I posted the sub! way instead.

js
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