From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-05-19T03:41:28+09:00
Subject: Re: String#nstrip ?

Daniel Berger wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> When using the Win32API package, I often have to resort to this idiom to
> get a string out of a buffer:
> 
> string.split(0.chr).first

Why won't slice do the trick?

irb(main):001:0> s = "hello\0\0\0\0"
=> "hello\000\000\000\000"
irb(main):002:0> s[/^.*?(?=\0)/]
=> "hello"

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