From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2009-09-08T03:50:24+09:00
Subject: Re: i need to strip \n and nil

Ken Bloom wrote:
> 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}

Didn't you really mean:

["59023\n", nil].inject("") {|acc, elmt| 
"#{acc}#{elmt}"}.match(/\n/).pre_match




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