How to add extra newline with 'puts' without sticking newline character into string?

Question

If I say

puts "Hello"

and decide to add an extra newline I need to do this:

puts "Hello\n"

Having this character in the string is ugly. Is there any way to do this without polluting my string?

Answer 1

Just make another call to puts:

puts "Hello"
puts

Answer 2

Well, I don't think an explicit newline is ugly. mipadi's answer is just fine as well. Just to throw another answer in, make an array of the lines then join the aray with a newline. :)

Answer 3

Do you think this looks nicer?

puts "Hello"+$/

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Answer 4

The reason why Ruby use \n for a newline is because its base on C where Ruby MRI is written in C and even JRuby is written in Java which is base on C++ which is base on C... you get the idea! So all these C-style languages use the \n for the new line.

You can always write your own method that act like puts but add new lines base upon a parameter to the method.

Answer 5

puts "Hello",""