gistfile1.rb

#From this

  #Method to strip special characters from a string
  def strip_specials(data)
    if $config["strip_characters"] == 'true'
      $config["characters_to_strip"].to_a.each do |char|
        data.gsub!(char.chr,"")
      end
    end
    return data
  end

#To this!

  #Method to strip special characters from a string
  def strip_specials(data)
    if $config["strip_characters"] == true
      $config["characters_to_strip"].to_a.each do |char|
        data.gsub!(char.chr,"")
      end
    end
    return data
  end