On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, ts wrote:

>>>>>> "A" == Ara T Howard <Ara.T.Howard / noaa.gov> writes:
>
> A>    if s.strip.empty?
> A>      # the string is whitespace only
>
> svg% ruby -e 'a = " \000\000"; p "OK" if a.strip.empty?'
> "OK"
> svg%
>
> svg% ruby -e 'a = " \000\000 "; p "OK" if a.strip.empty?'
> svg%

ahh!  that's terrible - i didn't know String#strip did that!  the docs say

   "Returns a copy of str with leading and trailing whitespace removed."

since when is NUL whitespace!?  defintely against POLS.

thanks for the pointer.

-a
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