Geoff,
But from the Rails documentation: An object is blank if it’s false, empty,
or a whitespace string. For example, “”, “ ”, nil, [], and {} are all
blank. That's why I think an array full of false, empty, or whitespace
strings should be empty.
- Michael
On Monday, July 9, 2012 10:18:04 AM UTC-4, Geoff Harcourt wrote:
>
> Michael,
>
> That array isn't blank, empty strings aren't the same as nils. I think
> changing that behavior would be confusing. If you don't want to count those
> elements, it's probably best to filter the array for non-blank strings.
>
> -Geoff
>
>
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> Geoff Harcourt
>
> On Monday, July 9, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Michael Boutros wrote:
>
> Hello:
>
> 1.9.3p194 :014 > "".blank?
> => true
> 1.9.3p194 :015 > ["", ""].blank?
> => false
>
> Proposal: the second line should also produce true.
>
> Thoughts?
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