From: Joakim Langvand <lists@...>
Date: 2012-08-29T18:33:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir.mkdir appending question mark after directory name

Thanks, Robert!

That helped :)

I suppose pname.chomp! would mean the same as pname = pname.chomp then. 
Didn´t think of that..

Robert Klemme wrote in post #1073741:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Joakim Langvand <lists@ruby-forum.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> Im starting to laern Ruby, but ive 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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