From: Charles A Gray <smgspices@...>
Date: 2006-12-29T00:23:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Strip is not stripping trailing whitespace

On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 17:52 +0900, Eric Hodel wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> String#gsub
> 
> line.gsub(/[\240]/, '')
> 
> 
line.chop will remove one of the "\240"s. line.chop.chop.chop will
remove all three, but they will still be on line. To completely remove
them, use line.chop!.chop!.chop! where line = the string you wish to
change.