From: dblack@...
Date: 2003-05-03T06:02:13+09:00
Subject: Re: chomp'ing REXML:Element.text

Hi --

On Sat, 3 May 2003, Andreas Schwarz wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm using the following code to read and chomp the content of a few
> elements from REXML. The problem is that I get an exception when an
> element is empty (<element></element>) because .text returns nil then.
> How can I solve this problem without writing large if-constructions?
>
> @company = customer.elements["company"].text.chomp
> @salutation =customer.elements["salutation"].text.chomp

You could throw in a to_s:

  ....text.to_s.chomp

(since nil.to_s is "")


David

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