From: Ken Bloom Date: 2009-09-08T03:10:59+09:00 Subject: Re: ["test string\n", nil] i need to strip \n and nil On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 05:27:10 +0900, Bigmac Turdsplash wrote: > im sending files back and forth form a client and a server using > sockets, > > the first string the server sends to the client is the size of the file, > "59023" > > the client recives this string in this format "59023\n", nil > > i need to trim \n and nil from the string so i can do some math with the > string... ["59023\n", nil].compact.collect{|x| x.chomp} -- Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/