From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2007-08-16T16:30:23+09:00
Subject: Re: removing quotes in a string

From: Daniel N [mailto:has.sox@gmail.com] 
# string.gsub( /\A"/m, "" ).gsub( /"\Z/m, "" )
# Bit simplistic maybe

simple but i usually do that :) it's easy to debug since we've broken down the method (think division of labor :).  in fact, my trim fxn does ltrim.rtrim sequence,

C:\family\ruby\trim>irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'trim'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> s="\"\"\"asdf\"\""
=> "\"\"\"asdf\"\""
irb(main):003:0> s="\"\"\"asdf\"\"".trim("\"")
=> "asdf"

kind regards -botp