From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2010-08-03T22:11:43+09:00
Subject: Re: How to remove leading   from string

Lucky Nl wrote:
> But if i gave with littile modifiaction at endof line is enetered with 
> chars <p>dada&nbsp;&nbsp;ddsa</p>"
> 
> str giving result nil

Yes, the result of gsub! is nil if no change is made; but the string 
remains as it was.

irb(main):001:0> str = "abc"
=> "abc"
irb(main):002:0> str.gsub!(/d/,"")
=> nil
irb(main):003:0> str
=> "abc"

It's intended so you can say

  if str.gsub! ...
    # it changed
  else
    # it didn't
  end

If you use gsub instead of gsub!, then it always returns the resulting 
string.

irb(main):004:0> str2 = str.gsub(/d/,"")
=> "abc"
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