On Sep 10, 2010, at 11:28 AM, ara.t.howard wrote: > > > >> >> ...it seems like I should be able to do: >> >> foo.chomp!.rstrip!.downcase! >> > > you can. > > %w( chomp! rstrip! downcase! ).each{|m| foo.send(m)} > > -a > So... what's wrong with: foo = foo.chomp.rstrip.downcase Jason