From: Paul Rubel <prubel@...>
Date: 2003-07-22T22:06:18+09:00
Subject: Re: gsub(/\s*$/, "") doubling string

Hello,

Yukihiro Matsumoto writes:
 > 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.

Thank you for all your hard work and wonderful language. 

 > |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".

Ah ha. That makes sense. My least surprise is now the same as yours.
    thank you,
     Paul