Feature #10574: Add String#lchomp and String.lchomp!

• Status: Open
• Priority: Normal
• Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
• Target version: -

[javawizard (Alex Boyd)]

With the expected behavior, i.e.

irb(main):013:0> 'foobar'.lchomp('foo')
=> "bar"
irb(main):014:0> 'foobar'.lchomp('baz')
=> "foobar"

A quick google search will turn up plenty of practical uses for this, as well as lots of libraries that patch String themselves to add this.

[shevegen (Robert A. Heiler)]

Possibly also add the default without arguments in order to compare to .chomp:

"\nacbdef\n".chomp  # => "\nacbdef"
"\nacbdef\n".lchomp # => "acbdef\n"

[javawizard (Alex Boyd)]

Agreed. I was slightly lazy writing up my example... :-)