From: Mike Stok <mike@...>
Date: 2011-04-16T11:23:58+09:00
Subject: Re: chomp behaviour

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On 2011-04-15, at 10:08 PM, Steel Steel wrote:

> Using 1.9.1
> I noticed something with chomp
> 
> $ echo "abc" | ruby -e 'puts gets.chomp("c")'
> abc
> 
> $ irb
> irb(main):001:0> "abc".chomp("c")
> => "ab"
> 
> It doesn't work on the command line, or am i doing it wrong.?
> comments?

gets includes the new line (if present):

ratdog:~ mike$ echo "abc" | ruby -e 'puts gets.chomp("c")'
abc
ratdog:~ mike$ echo -n "abc" | ruby -e 'puts gets.chomp("c")'
ab

Hope this helps,

Mike


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