Extending JavaScript Strings with Chomp using Prototypes
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Chomp is that oh-so-fun function in Perl to bite off extra newlines from the end of a string. It can be useful to have chomp for JavaScript too, especially in cases such as reading input in textareas.
This time around, I’m going to take a quick look at how we can take the standalone JavaScript chomp function and make it even more accessible by extending JavaScript’s String object, which also gives us an excuse to try out the awesome prototype feature in JavaScript.
