From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2007-07-27T04:22:24+09:00
Subject: Re: rtrim and ltrim function for ruby: is this ok?



On Jul 24, 3:55 pm, LeonB <l...@tim-online.nl> wrote:
> 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!

  #chomp!

but there is no reverse or left chomp --wish there were! And it does
not support regexp. Maybe worth an RCR.

T.