"Martin DeMello" <martindemello / yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:%cTZc.292866$M95.74360 / pd7tw1no...
> Robert Klemme <bob.news / gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> > "Martin DeMello" <martindemello / yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> > news:idIZc.301315$J06.4478 / pd7tw2no...
> > > Any way to make IO.readlines chomp each line before adding it to the
> > > array? (i.e. a = IO.readlines.map {|i| i.chomp} but done in the
> > > readlines call itself)
> >
> > Not AFAIK.  You can do
>
> [...]
>
> Ah - I was hoping there was some sort of $variable that controlled
> chomping.

If at all a method argument acting as flag would be appropriate ($global ==
EVIL).  I guess it was omitted because #readlines has already an optional
parameter (the line terminator).

Kind regards

    robert