From: Adam Prescott <mentionuse@...>
Date: 2010-10-05T01:01:50+09:00
Subject: Re: save only first line from string?

> I, perhaps erroneously, thought that the OP wanted to modify the string.

Oh, yes, I missed that; I should pay more attention.

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:18 PM, John Sikora <john.sikora@xtera.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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