RubyFlow The Ruby and Rails community linklog

×

The Ruby and Rails community linklog

Made a library? Written a blog post? Found a useful tutorial? Share it with the Ruby community here or just enjoy what everyone else has found!

Unicode Whitespace Shenigans in Ruby

by PeterCooper —

It seems that sometimes.. the split is not enough! (Yes, Bond theme - 100% cheese.) If you’ve got a string that just won’t split, there might literally be more to it than meets the eye. I use this as a springboard to launch into some Ruby whitespace shenanigans! Enjoy.

Comments

Ah yes, the ol’ non-breaking space. Great little write up. I learned about non-breaking spaces the hard way when moving to 1.9. They’re very common in text imported from Excel or from web scrapers.

bradland —

Post a comment

You can use basic HTML markup (e.g. <a>) or Markdown.

As you are not logged in, you will be
directed via GitHub to signup or sign in