readln() returns new line charater

[Jeroen Bollen]

On Saturday, 28 December 2013 at 16:49:15 UTC, Jeroen Bollen 
wrote:
> Why is when you do readln() the newline character (\n) gets 
> read too? Wouldn't it make more sense for that character to be 
> stripped off?

I just want to add to this, that it makes it really annoying to 
work with the command line, as you kinda have to strip off the 
last character and thus cannot make the string immutable.