lstrip : 去掉首空格 rstrip : 去掉尾空格 gsub : 去掉全部空格,不过要用到pattern匹配 eg: s1 = " Test whitespace" s2 = " hello Ruby Rails " s3 = "trailing " puts s1.lstrip+s3 # show lstrip remove leading whitespace puts s2.rstrip+s3 # show rstrip remove trail whitespace puts s1.strip + s2.strip + s3 # show strip remove leading and trail whitespace puts s2.gsub(/\s+/,'') puts s2.gsub(' ','') puts s2.gsub!(' ','') puts s2.gsub(//,'') # four methods show remove all whitespace str.gsub(/^ | $/,"")去掉首尾空格