Fastest way to remove this strange character

Ruby
1

Hello
I was trying out the roo gem and encountered this issue. when i do a
object.sheets, it seems to spit out the array and adds \000 for every
letter of the sheet name
for eg.
currentTrade becomes c\000u\000r\000r\000e\000n\000t\000T\000r\000a
\000d\000e\000

which is the fastest way to remove \000 from the array.

irb(main):005:0> ss=Excel.new(“E:\Documents and Settings\TTSSR0149
\Desktop\orderingsystem.xls”)

irb(main):003:0> ss.sheets()
=> [“c\000u\000r\000r\000e\000n\000t\000T\000r\000a\000d\000e\000”, “M
\000i\000s
\000s\000e\000d\000T\000r\000a\000d\000e\000”, “S\000c\000a\000n\000s
\000”, “c\0
00l\000o\000s\000e\000d\000”]
irb(main):004:0>

2

quoth the Junkone:

Hello
I was trying out the roo gem and encountered this issue. when i do a
object.sheets, it seems to spit out the array and adds \000 for every
letter of the sheet name
for eg.
currentTrade becomes c\000u\000r\000r\000e\000n\000t\000T\000r\000a
\000d\000e\000

which is the fastest way to remove \000 from the array.

irb> s = “c\000u\000r\000r\000e\000n\000t\000T\000r\000a\000d\000e\000”
irb> n = “”
irb> s.unpack(“S*”).each {|c| n << c.chr}
=> [99, 117, 114, 114, 101, 110, 116, 84, 114, 97, 100, 101]
irb> n
=> “currentTrade”

Not sure if this is fastest or ‘best’…

-d

3

On Dec 26, 2007 7:20 PM, Junkone [email protected] wrote:

irb(main):004:0>
It’s unicode - so you may use iconv to convert to whatever 8-bit
encoding you want.
If you want to have the ‘fastest’ one - compare it to other approaches
with Benchmark.