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

Not sure if it's the best way but you could try:

s.reverse.chomp.reverse

if you want to leave the trailing newline (if it exists).

Answer 2

To be perfectly accurate chomp not only can delete whitespace, from the end of a string, but can also delete arbitrary characters.

If the latter functionality is sought, one can use:

'\naaaa\nbbbb'.delete_prefix( "\n" )

But now you this works for arbitrary characters exactly like chomp.