Re: Tutorial

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 3:32 AM, Peter Bortas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Since I happened to have my Windows VM console up: I can confirm this
> behavior in the default Hilfe:
>
>> Stdio.stdin->gets();
> foo
> (1) Result: "foo\r"
>
> That seems rather useless. It would break the API to fix it, but on
> the other hand gets() is one of those functions you almost only use in
> tutorials.

Would it break the API? I mean, conceptually, it's retrieving a string
terminated by end-of-line. On Windows, "end-of-line" is often "\r\n".
Perhaps the solution is for gets to always strip off a trailing \r?
Bear in mind that this also applies to files that have CRLF endings,
not just stdin. I normally get around it by trimming whites, but it'd
be nice for it to just work.

ChrisA