From: gotoken@... (GOTO Kentaro)
Date: 2001-01-02T04:27:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8470] Re: A newbie question (about regexp)

In message "[ruby-talk:8469] Re: A newbie question (about regexp)"
    on 01/01/02, David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:
>>   str = gets
>>   break if not str
>>   str.chop!
>
>That doesn't do what I think you think it does. Empty strings (let
>alone ones with newlines in them :-)  are not false in Ruby.
>
>Try this:
>
>  str = gets.chomp
>  break if str.empty?

It doesn't preserve the specification bacause original version is 
intended to be quit by hitting `ctrl-d' ;-)

-- Gotoken