From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2010-11-04T02:00:23+09:00
Subject: Re: UTF-8 aware chop for 1.8?

On Nov 3, 2010, at 11:56 AM, Ammar Ali wrote:

> My method now looks like:
> 
> def chop_utf8(s)
>  return unless s
> 
>  lead = s.sub(/.\z/mu, "")
>  last = s.scan(/.\z/mu).first
>  last = '' unless last

The two lines above can be replaced with the more efficient:

last = s[/.\z/mu] || ''

>  [lead, last]
> end

James Edward Gray II