# Chomp like Perl operator in Ruby
**URL:** https://rubytalk.org/t/chomp-like-perl-operator-in-ruby/58541
**Category:** ruby-talk
**Created:** [15 May 2010 21:26 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/chomp-like-perl-operator-in-ruby/58541 "2010-05-15T21:26:39Z")
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### Author:  [@Parag\_Kalra](https://rubytalk.org/u/Parag_Kalra)
#### Post date: [15 May 2010 21:26 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/chomp-like-perl-operator-in-ruby/58541/1 "2010-05-15T21:26:39Z")
Is there a chomp like Perl operator in Ruby using which I can literally
remove new line characters as show below in my Perl script:
use strict;
use warnings;
my $str1 = "Hello\n";
my $str2 = "World";
print $str1.$str2;
print "\n";
chomp($str1);
print $str1.$str2;
print "\n";
Any clue?
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### Author:  [@Ben\_Bleything1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Ben_Bleything1)
#### Post date: [15 May 2010 21:34 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/chomp-like-perl-operator-in-ruby/58541/2 "2010-05-15T21:34:20Z")
There's a really easy way to answer this question for yourself:
$ ri chomp
(from ruby core)
Implementation from String
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> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Parag Kalra \ wrote:
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> > Is there a chomp like Perl operator in Ruby using which I can literally
> > remove new line characters as show below in my Perl script:
>
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> str.chomp(separator=$/) =\> new\_str
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> 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 r\n).
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### Author:  [@Josh\_Cheek](https://rubytalk.org/u/Josh_Cheek)
#### Post date: [15 May 2010 21:45 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/chomp-like-perl-operator-in-ruby/58541/3 "2010-05-15T21:45:29Z")
The online docs (plus a few examples) for the method Ben showed the ri of
[http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html#M000819](http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html#M000819)
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> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Parag Kalra \ wrote:
>
> > Is there a chomp like Perl operator in Ruby using which I can literally
> > remove new line characters as show below in my Perl script:
> >
> > use strict;
> > use warnings;
> >
> > my $str1 = "Hello\n";
> > my $str2 = "World";
> > print $str1.$str2;
> >
> > print "\n";
> >
> > chomp($str1);
> >
> > print $str1.$str2;
> >
> > print "\n";
> >
> > Any clue?
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### Author:  [@Parag\_Kalra](https://rubytalk.org/u/Parag_Kalra)
#### Post date: [15 May 2010 22:19 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/chomp-like-perl-operator-in-ruby/58541/4 "2010-05-15T22:19:10Z")
Thanks it worked:
str="Hello\n"
str2="World"
puts str+str2
str1=str.chomp
puts str1+str2
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### Author:  [@David\_Masover](https://rubytalk.org/u/David_Masover)
#### Post date: [16 May 2010 00:48 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/chomp-like-perl-operator-in-ruby/58541/5 "2010-05-16T00:48:05Z")
Not the whole story. If you know you're not going to use the original string,
you might consider chomp! instead.
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> On Saturday, May 15, 2010 04:34:20 pm Ben Bleything wrote:
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> > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Parag Kalra \ wrote:
> > \> Is there a chomp like Perl operator in Ruby using which I can literally
> >
> > \> remove new line characters as show below in my Perl script:
> > There's a really easy way to answer this question for yourself:
> >
> > $ ri chomp