The chomp Method
Excitement! Now we can make interactive programs! In this one, type your name, and it will greet you:
puts 'Hello there, and what\'s your name?' |
name = gets |
puts 'Your name is ' + name + '? What a lovely name!' |
puts 'Pleased to meet you, ' + name + '. :)' |
Eek! I just ran it—I typed my name, and this is what happened:
| <= | Hello there, and what's your name? |
| => | Chris |
| <= | Your name is Chris |
? What a lovely name! | |
Pleased to meet you, Chris | |
. :) |
Hmmm...it looks like when I typed the letters C, h, r, i, and s and then pressed Enter, gets got all the letters in my name and the Enter! Fortunately, there’s a method that deals with just this sort of thing: chomp. It takes off any Enter characters hanging out at the end of your string. ...
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