From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2008-06-28T12:59:50+09:00
Subject: Re: File question

From: Xuan [mailto:xuanpa@gmail.com] 
# Instead of c.chomp! as it was suggested, use c=c.chomp(" ") before the

that is dangerous since chomp(" ") only chomps the ending space, but not line endings like newline.

c="asdf \n".chomp(" ")
#=> "asdf \n"

in his case, i would prefer #strip wc will strip out all whitespace before and after the string

like,

c="  asdf  \t \r\n"
#=> "  asdf  \t \r\n"

c.strip!
#=> "asdf"


# "if"statement. The problem seems to be a white space at the end of
# "c".. if you use print instead of puts you'll see it.

using p is better/catching to the eye

print "asdf "
asdf #=> nil

p "asdf "
"asdf "
#=> nil

# About your second problem I just tested it and works fine for me.
# Maybe txt file encoding is wrong...be sure to save it with utf-8 enc.

i agree.

kind regards -botp