From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2010-10-07T19:00:33+09:00
Subject: Re: save only first line from string?

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2010/10/7 Jes=FAs Gabriel y Gal=E1n <jgabrielygalan@gmail.com>

> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Terry Michaels <spare@frigidcode.com>
> wrote:
> > Benoit Daloze wrote:
> >> On 4 October 2010 04:19, 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 lin=
e,
> >>> multiple lines, or no lines, and assume that we don't know which OS w=
e
> >>> are on.)
> >>> --
> >>
> >> Probably the most elegant, with Ruby 1.9:
> >>
> >> str =3D str.lines.first
> >>
> >> add ".chomp" if you want to remove the trailing EOL.
> >
> > Definitely the most elegant! (Defining 'elegant' as simple, natural,
> > easy to read) Thanks! This seems to work fine on my system with ruby
> > 1.8.7 (patchlevel 302). Possibly not the most efficient (requires entir=
e
> > string to be split into array elements) but okay in my case.
> >
> > In fairness to the others, I should have explained that I was okay with
> > replacing the old string with a new string.
>
> Did my solution work for you?
>
> str =3D str.first
>
> This way you avoid the intermediate array.
>
> Jesus.
>
>
I tried it on 1.8.6, 1.8.7, 1.9.1, 1.9.2, and found that it only worked on
1.8.7

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