From: Chris <chris@...>
Date: 2002-04-04T04:29:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie Questions

In article <1017831725.4396.16.camel@detrius>,
 Erik B�gfors <erik@bagfors.nu> wrote:

> Yes.. normally a string-object
> 
> : [bagfors@detrius]$ ; irb
> irb(main):001:0> str = gets
> hello world
> "hello world\n"
> irb(main):002:0> p str
> "hello world\n"
> nil
> irb(main):003:0> p str.type
> String
> nil

Of course, you can always call methods on STDIN directly.

irb(main):001:0> str = STDIN.readline.strip
foo bar
"foo bar"