From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2006-12-28T18:00:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Strip is not stripping trailing whitespace

Taylor Strait wrote:
> > 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?
>
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Remove ASCII 128-- 255 at end of line:

irb(main):016:0> "foo\240\250 \n".strip.
irb(main):017:0* sub(/[#{128.chr}-#{255.chr}]+$/,"")
=> "foo"