From: LeonB <leon@...>
Date: 2007-07-25T07:55:04+09:00
Subject: rtrim and ltrim function for ruby: is this ok?

I created this function:

class String
	def rtrim(character)

		if self[-1, 1] == character.to_s
			self[0, self.length - 1]
		end
		return self
	end

	def ltrim(character)
		if self[0, 1] == character.to_s
			self[1, self.length]
		end
		return self
	end
end

Is this ok? Am I not duplicating any built-in ruby functions? Does
anyone see any possible problems with these functions?

Thanks in advance!