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

A way to do this for whitespace or non-whitespace characters is like this:

s = "\naaaa\nbbbb"
s.slice!("\n") # returns "\n" but s also has the first newline removed.
puts s # shows s has the first newline removed