funny string cleaning

string-cleaning.rb

class String
  
  def astrip
    self.gsub(/([\302|\240|\s|\n|\t])|(\ ?){1,}/, ' ').gsub("\240",' ').ostrip
  end
  
  def clean_chars
    self.clean_dashes.clean_funny_spaces
  end
  
  def clean_dashes
    self.gsub('‐', '-')
  end
  def clean_funny_spaces
    self.gsub(/^[\302\240|\s]*|[\302\240|\s]*$/, '')
  end
  
  def ostrip
	  self.strip.gsub(/^[\302\240|\s]*|[\302\240|\s]*$/, '').gsub(/[\r\n]/, " ")
  end 
end