From: WATANABE Hirofumi <eban@...>
Date: 2003-07-22T18:14:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Should String#strip take a parameter?

Hi,

Xiangrong Fang <xrfang@hotmail.com> writes:

> I have a question regarding strip. I wrote a DLL in other language, and
> used the following  to call the dll function in ruby:
> 
> arg = " " * 100
> myfunc.Call(arg)
> 
> after that arg may contain a string such as:
> 
> "return value\000"
> 
> I used strip, but the strip does not strip away terminating null
> character...

"return value\000".unpack("A*")[0]

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eban