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require 'cgi'
require 'iconv'
 
module Imdb #:nordoc:
  module StringExtensions
  
    # Unescape HTML
    def imdb_unescape_html
      Iconv.conv("UTF-8", 'ISO-8859-1', CGI::unescapeHTML(self))
    end
  
    # Strip tags
    def imdb_strip_tags
      gsub(/<\/?[^>]*>/, "")
    end
    
    # Strips out whitespace then tests if the string is empty.
    def blank?
      strip.empty?
    end unless method_defined?(:blank?)
  end
end

String.send :include, Imdb::StringExtensions

Version data entries

5 entries across 5 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
imdb-0.6.6	lib/imdb/string_extensions.rb
imdb-0.6.5	lib/imdb/string_extensions.rb
imdb-0.6.4	lib/imdb/string_extensions.rb
imdb-0.6.3	lib/imdb/string_extensions.rb
imdb-0.6.2	lib/imdb/string_extensions.rb