From: Eugen Ciur <eugen@...>
Date: 2010-07-23T23:09:40+09:00
Subject: Re: how to convert the string?

where \S in regular expression means match any character except whitespace

On 07/23/2010 05:05 PM, Eugen Ciur wrote:
> "-34\n   \302\240".match(/\S+/).to_s
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> Eugen.
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> On 07/23/2010 04:45 PM, Pen Ttt wrote:
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>> i want to convert a string  "-34\n   \302\240"  into "-34"
>> irb(main):001:0>   "-34\n   \302\240".gsub('\302\240','').strip.chomp
>> =>   "-34\n   \302\240"
>> how to convert it?
>> thinks for your help.
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