Question

Using the IRB, I want to enter a multiple line string in order to strip certain characters from it. “gets” only allows a single line – is there a similar function for multiple lines.

ASCII_project.rb(main):002:0* puts = "What's the text you want to strip?"
=> "What's the text you want to strip?"
ASCII_project.rb(main):003:0> str = gets

I now want to paste in a section of text – because of the new lines it doesn’t function. This is why I want to collect over multiple lines

Here is the code

# encoding: CP850
puts = "What's the text you want to strip?"
str = gets
str.gsub!(/\P{ASCII}/, '')
puts str

Answer 1

You can do this in following way,

$/ = "END"  
user_input = STDIN.gets
puts user_input

make sure to type END keyword when you think the input is finished,

As well this will only work with actual interpreter not irb.