From: Junkone Date: 2007-12-27T03:20:07+09:00 Subject: fastest way to remove this strange character Hello I was trying out the roo gem and encountered this issue. when i do a object.sheets, it seems to spit out the array and adds \000 for every letter of the sheet name for eg. currentTrade becomes c\000u\000r\000r\000e\000n\000t\000T\000r\000a \000d\000e\000 which is the fastest way to remove \000 from the array. irb(main):005:0> ss=Excel.new("E:\\Documents and Settings\\TTSSR0149\ \Desktop\\orderingsystem.xls") irb(main):003:0> ss.sheets() => ["c\000u\000r\000r\000e\000n\000t\000T\000r\000a\000d\000e\000", "M \000i\000s \000s\000e\000d\000T\000r\000a\000d\000e\000", "S\000c\000a\000n\000s \000", "c\0 00l\000o\000s\000e\000d\000"] irb(main):004:0>