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| author | Xavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com> | 2009-08-23 01:23:56 +0200 |
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| committer | Xavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com> | 2009-08-23 01:23:56 +0200 |
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AS guide: documents String#squish
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diff --git a/railties/guides/source/active_support_overview.textile b/railties/guides/source/active_support_overview.textile index 65ec023876..5e6c2030c6 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/active_support_overview.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/active_support_overview.textile @@ -682,6 +682,16 @@ h4. +bytesize+ Ruby 1.9 introduces +String#bytesize+ to obtain the length of a string in bytes. Ruby 1.8.7 defines this method as an alias for +String#size+ for forward compatibility, and Active Support does so for previous versions. +h4. +squish+ + +The method +String#squish+ strips leading and trailing whitespace, and substitutes runs of whitespace with a single space each: + +<ruby> +" \n foo\n\r \t bar \n".squish # => "foo bar" +</ruby> + +There's also the destructive version +String#squish!+. + h3. Extensions to +Numeric+ ... |