From: Pen Ttt Date: 2010-07-24T18:38:30+09:00 Subject: Re: how to convert the string? i have solved it myself,thinks. irb(main):026:0> "-34\n \302\240".gsub("\302\240","") => "-34\n " irb(main):027:0> irb(main):028:0* "-34jkl\n \302\240".gsub("\302\240","") => "-34jkl\n " irb(main):029:0> irb(main):030:0* "-34jkl\n tyy \302\240".gsub("\302\240","") => "-34jkl\n tyy " irb(main):031:0> irb(main):032:0* "Dec 31, 2009/n \302\240".gsub("\302\240","").split("/n")[0] => "Dec 31, 2009" irb(main):033:0> irb(main):034:0* "-34/n \302\240".gsub("\302\240","").split("/n")[0] => "-34" irb(main):035:0> irb(main):036:0* "profit/n \302\240".gsub("\302\240","").split("/n")[0] => "profit" -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.