Comments on: HTML Dom in Ruby with Nokogiri http://www.jasonrowland.com/2010/02/html-dom-in-ruby-with-nokogiri/ Learning Mac, Ruby, iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, WinMobile Sat, 03 Sep 2011 21:27:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Luis http://www.jasonrowland.com/2010/02/html-dom-in-ruby-with-nokogiri/comment-page-1/#comment-104 Luis Sun, 01 Aug 2010 12:35:45 +0000 http://www.jasonrowland.com/?p=286#comment-104 Hi In strip!, you can get a copy of the string doing a "self.dup" instead of doing the "self.reverse.reverse" thing. And gsub! already returns nil when it didn't modified the string, so you can replace the whole strip! with: def strip!; self.gsub!(/^[\302\240|\s]*|[\302\240|\s]*$/, ''); end Hi
In strip!, you can get a copy of the string doing a “self.dup” instead of doing the “self.reverse.reverse” thing.
And gsub! already returns nil when it didn’t modified the string, so you can replace the whole strip! with:

def strip!; self.gsub!(/^[\302\240|\s]*|[\302\240|\s]*$/, ”); end

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