From: Brian Tully <btully@...>
Date: 2004-06-23T05:40:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question - how to replace multiple whitespace within astring?


> 
>> squeeze! - Squeezes str in place, returning either str, or  nil if no
>> changes were made.
>> 
>> I interpret this as if no changes were made "nil" will be returned, so in my
>> example of "California" wouldn't this set @state to nil?
>> 
>>  
>> 
> correct
> 
> you would use squeeze if you wanted to modify @user["state"]. In which
> case the following lines are about equivilent
> 
> @user["state"] = @user["state"].squeeze
> @user["state"].squeeze!
> 

Aha!  Thanks Mark :)

That clears it up for me :)

Best regards,
brian