[m-rev.] Minor addition to string.m

[Ralph Becket]

Simon Taylor, Wednesday, 29 January 2003:
> On 29-Jan-2003, Ralph Becket <rafe at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > Estimated hours taken: 0.5
> > Branches: main
> > 
> > library/string.m:
> > 	Added function chomp/1.
> 
> How about `remove_trailing_newline', or even better a more
> general `remove_trailing_char'.

remove_trailing_char is a good idea; I'll add that.

chomp is pretty well known (it's a Perlism...).  How about if I add
remove_trailing_newline as a synonym for chomp?  That should cover
all the bases.
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