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11/24/2014

10:52 AM Ruby Bug #10476: String.strip remove characters different than pure whitespace

It looks perfect. yld (Yves Le Douaron)

11/05/2014

09:01 AM Ruby Bug #10476: String.strip remove characters different than pure whitespace

The example only includes 4 of these 7 characters, null, form feed and vertical tab are missing.
Maybe a documentation update could be usefull? yld (Yves Le Douaron)

11/04/2014

04:34 PM Ruby Bug #10476: String.strip remove characters different than pure whitespace

With the old 1.8.7 interpreter, the behaviour of strip was different:
~~~
1.8.7-head :010 > "#{0.chr}#{9.chr}#{10.chr}#{11.chr}#{12.chr}#{13.chr}#{32.chr}".strip
=> "\000"
1.8.7-head :011 > "#{0.chr}#{9.chr}#{10.chr}#{11.chr}#{12... yld (Yves Le Douaron)

03:42 PM Ruby Bug #10476 (Closed): String.strip remove characters different than pure whitespace

The offical documentation (http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.4/String.html#method-i-strip) says:
**strip → new_str**
*Returns a copy of str with leading and trailing whitespace removed.*
But
~~~
[9] pry(main)> "#{0.chr}#{9.chr... yld (Yves Le Douaron)