Chomp (String) - APIdock

method chomp ruby latest stable - Class: String chomp(*args)public

Returns a new String with the given record separator removed from the end of str (if present). If $/ has not been changed from the default Ruby record separator, then chomp also removes carriage return characters (that is it will remove n, r, and rn). If $/ is an empty string, it will remove all trailing newlines from the string.

"hello".chomp #=> "hello" "hello\n".chomp #=> "hello" "hello\r\n".chomp #=> "hello" "hello\n\r".chomp #=> "hello\n" "hello\r".chomp #=> "hello" "hello \n there".chomp #=> "hello \n there" "hello".chomp("llo") #=> "he" "hello\r\n\r\n".chomp('') #=> "hello" "hello\r\n\r\r\n".chomp('') #=> "hello\r\n\r" Show source static VALUE rb_str_chomp(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE str) { VALUE rs = chomp_rs(argc, argv); if (NIL_P(rs)) return rb_str_dup(str); return rb_str_subseq(str, 0, chompped_length(str, rs)); }

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Argument Accepted

nhance · Jan 19, 20102 thanks

Accepts a single argument record_separator which is the character or string to chomp.

Why isn't this shown in the method def at the top?

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