From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-05-02T11:48:38+09:00
Subject: Re: strip method

Hi --

On Fri, 2 May 2008, Amasa Masiarek wrote:

> s = <<EOS
> a1\t  b1
> a2\tb2
> EOS
>
> s.each{|e|
>    a = e.strip.split("\t")
>    p a[1]
> }
>
> output:
> "  b1"
> "b2"
>
> expected output:
> "b1"
> "b2"
>
> What is wrong?

Your expectation :-) Sorry, I couldn't resist.

strip removes space on the right and left. If you start with 
"a1\t b1\n", the stripped version is "a1\t b1". If you split that on
\t, you get "a1" and " b1". At no point have you removed the middle
space.


David

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