From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2012-08-29T18:23:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir.mkdir appending question mark after directory name

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Joakim Langvand <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I´m starting to laern Ruby, but i´ve encountered this strange problem.
> This is my code:
>
> pname = gets
> pname.chomp

You are missing an exclamation mark:
pname.chomp!

The method without returns a new object but does not modify your
pname.  You can see that by inserting

p pname

before creating the directory.

> Dir.mkdir(pname)
>
> If I enter test for pname, the resulting folder is named "test?". What
> am I doing wrong here?

See above.

Kind regards

robert

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