From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2009-09-08T09:08:34+09:00
Subject: Re: i need to strip \n and nil

On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:50:24 +0900, 7stud -- wrote:

> 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

No, that's not quite the same at all. (I did exactly what he asked for in 
the subject line.)



-- 
Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/