From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-07-22T21:34:00+09:00
Subject: Re: gsub(/\s*$/, "") doubling string

Hi,

In message "Re: gsub(/\s*$/, "") doubling string"
    on 03/07/22, ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> writes:

|P> # very odd (at least to me) in 1.8.0p3
|P> irb(main):005:0> " TEST   .".gsub(/\s*$/, "")
|P> => " TEST   . TEST   ." 
|
| Can you try this

Thank you for the fix, Guy. And thank you for finding a bug, Paul.

|P> irb(main):002:0> "  string       ".gsub(/\s*$/, 'P')
|P> "  stringPP"
|
| this is normal

The first try replaces all trailing spaces with "P", then second try
replaces empty at the end of string with "P".

							matz.