From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2006-12-28T17:20:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Strip is not stripping trailing whitespace

Taylor Strait wrote:
> > Note the use of String#chomp
>
> Thanks, Morton.  That was the key.  I just appended two .chomp methods
> and it fixed it right up.

It couldn't have.

strip removes newlines, because they are whitespace.
On the other hand, neither chomp nor strip removes "\240".

>> "foo  \n".strip
=> "foo"
>> ("foo " + 0240.chr).chomp
=> "foo \240"