> SZMURLO MAURICE wrote:
> 
>  ruby -e 'p gets'
> aaa
> "aaa\n"
> 
> gets returns the end of line character as well
> 
> try strip or chop
> 
> maurice

Maurice, are you aware you're posting HTML, and can you turn it off?
It's appearing in an unreadably small font here. -- Mark