From: Ammar Ali <ammarabuali@...>
Date: 2010-11-04T02:25:59+09:00
Subject: Re: UTF-8 aware chop for 1.8?

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 7:00 PM, James Edward Gray II
<james@graysoftinc.com> wrote:
> 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] || ''

At this rate the method is going to disappear. :)

I updated the gist accordingly:

  https://gist.github.com/661257

Thanks again,
Ammar