From: brabuhr@...
Date: 2006-05-19T05:27:38+09:00
Subject: Re: String#nstrip ?

> > 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
> >
> > The problem is that it's kinda slow.  No, I can't use String#rstrip or
> > String#gsub because often there's other junk at the end of the string that
> > would prevent those methods from working.
> >
> > What about adding a String#nstrip (null strip) method that would return a
> > string up to the first NULL character?
>
> Ok, nevermind. :)

In the case that someone else may have this same need, I added a link
to this thread to the annotations for String#split on the annotated
Ruby documentation at:

    http://ruby.outertrack.com/class/String/split#notessec