readln() returns new line charater

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Saturday, 28 December 2013 at 17:07:58 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 12/28/13 8:50 AM, Jeroen Bollen wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Try stdin.byLine, which by default strips the newline.

stdin.byLine can't strip \r\n unless you specify that as the line 
terminator, in which case it can't split by \n.