From: Paul Smith <paul@...>
Date: 2009-09-08T18:19:22+09:00
Subject: Re: i need to strip \n and nil

I think 7stud is being sarcastic... He thinks the compact is
unnecessary, and is explaining his point by introducing other
unnecessary elements like inject.

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Ken Bloom<kbloom@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/
>
>
>



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