In Ruby, what's the easiest way to “chomp” at the start of a string instead of the end?

Question

In Ruby, sometimes I need to remove the new line character at the beginning of a string. Currently what I did is like the following. I want to know the best way to do this. Than

Answer 1

strip will remove all trailing whitespace

s = "\naaaa\nbbbb"
s.strip!

Little hack to chomp leading whitespace:

str = "\nmy string"
chomped_str = str.reverse.chomp.reverse