From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2010-11-04T00:57:45+09:00
Subject: Re: UTF-8 aware chop for 1.8?

On Nov 3, 2010, at 9:08 AM, Ammar Ali wrote:

> Is there an easy way to chop (as in String#chop) a string that can
> potentially contain UTF-8 in ruby 1.8? Or should I roll my own?

Well, it should be this simple:

  str.gsub(/.\z/mu, "")

James Edward Gray II