From: Stephen Ball <sdball@...>
Date: 2008-10-15T03:54:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Remove only TRAILING whitespace

str = "  string  "

rightTrim = str.rstrip
=> "   string"

# for completeness
leftTrim = str.lstrip
=> "string   "

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:46:43 -0400, Bob Smyph  
<eric.ramsey@cbc-companies.com> wrote:

> Is there any way to only remove trailing white space from a string. I
> have tried to use strip but that will also take off leading white space
> and I want to keep that.
>
> any help is appreciated