From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2005-09-13T22:12:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Some suggestions

On Sep 13, 2005, at 12:31 AM, Robert Klemme wrote:
> #strip
> gsub /[ab]+/, ''

Isn't #strip for leading/trailing only? (A combined lstrip and  
rstrip, if you will.)

So:
gsub /^[ab]+|[ab]+$/, ''