From: darren kirby <bulliver@...>
Date: 2007-12-27T03:35:48+09:00
Subject: Re: fastest way to remove this strange character

quoth the Junkone:
> 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> s = "c\000u\000r\000r\000e\000n\000t\000T\000r\000a\000d\000e\000"
irb> n = ""
irb> s.unpack("S*").each {|c| n << c.chr}
=> [99, 117, 114, 114, 101, 110, 116, 84, 114, 97, 100, 101]
irb> n
=> "currentTrade"

Not sure if this is fastest or 'best'...

-d
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