From: Carlos <angus@...>
Date: 2006-12-28T17:56:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Strip is not stripping trailing whitespace

[Taylor Strait <taylorstrait@gmail.com>, 2006-12-28 09.31 CET]
> > 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"
> 
> This is why I shouldn't code at 3:30am!  I had used chop instead, which 
> of course truncated the text in rare cases.  How can I remove \240?

  line.delete! "\240"

or, if you want to delete them at the end only,

  line.sub! /\240+$/, ""

Good luck.

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