Issue #10582 has been updated by Nobuyoshi Nakada. Category set to doc Status changed from Open to Assigned Assignee changed from Yukihiro Matsumoto to Zachary Scott Target version set to current: 2.2.0 ---------------------------------------- Bug #10582: String#chomp strips off more newlines than its documentation states https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10582#change-50341 * Author: Alex Boyd * Status: Assigned * Priority: Normal * Assignee: Zachary Scott * Category: doc * Target version: current: 2.2.0 * ruby -v: ruby 2.2.0dev (2014-12-04 trunk 48708) [x86_64-darwin14] * Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN ---------------------------------------- Given an empty string as its parameter, String#chomp strips off as many trailing newlines as are present, plus a preceding carriage return if one exists: ~~~ irb(main):001:0> "foo\n\n\n".chomp => "foo\n\n" irb(main):002:0> "foo\n\n\n".chomp '' => "foo" irb(main):003:0> "foo\r\n\n\n".chomp '' => "foo" ~~~ This should either be mentioned as part of String#chomp's documentation, or removed. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/