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Ruby Ruby Operators and Control Structures Ruby Control Structures The Ruby Else Statement

Immo Struchholz
Immo Struchholz
10,515 Points
Posted by Immo Struchholz
Immo Struchholz
10,515 Points

.chomp not working?

Hi,

When I call .chomp on a string it doesn't do anything. For example: "something ".chomp just returns "something " but shouldn't it return "something" ?

I wrapped the code from this video in a function like so:

def myName(name)
    if name.chomp.capitalize == "Immo"
        puts "That's my name, too!"
    else
        puts "Hi #{name.capitalize}!"
    end
end

and when I call myName("immo ") it returns: "Hi Immo !" instead of: "That's my name, too!"

Maybe I misunderstood what .chomp does, but I thought it removed trailing whitespace, such as spaces.

Immo Struchholz
Immo Struchholz
10,515 Points
Immo Struchholz
Immo Struchholz
10,515 Points

Here is a screenshot of the code (the second function), because my formatting obviously didn't get applied to my post
http://i.imgur.com/cu92vx3.png

1 Answer

tobiaskrause
tobiaskrause
9,160 Points

Do you really call "immo " (With whitespace)? Seems like you missunderstood chomp. Here is a description: http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.0/String.html#method-i-chomp

this is what you are looking for: http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.0/String.html#method-i-strip

Immo Struchholz
Immo Struchholz
10,515 Points
Immo Struchholz
Immo Struchholz
10,515 Points

Thanks, I obviously misunderstood chomp. Works just fine now with strip!