From: Ammar Ali <ammarabuali@...>
Date: 2010-11-04T01:33:32+09:00
Subject: Re: UTF-8 aware chop for 1.8?

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 5:57 PM, James Edward Gray II
<james@graysoftinc.com> wrote:
> Well, it should be this simple:
>
>  str.gsub(/.\z/mu, "")

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Adam Prescott <mentionuse@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> s.gsub(/^(.+)./u) { $1 }
> => "one two thre"


Beautiful. Thank you both.

It was a god exercise for me, so I don't necessarily feel that I
wasted 30 minutes of my life :)

By the way, the m options seems superfluous in James' version. I get
the same results without it.

Thanks again,
Ammar