From: Siep Korteling <s.korteling@...>
Date: 2008-02-06T05:30:06+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby wish-list

Roger Pack wrote:
> Is it possible to easily strip arbitrary characters off a string?
> a la "abc:".strip ':'
> ?
> it looks like it's possible with gsub
> abc:'.gsub(/:$/, '')
> however the wish is a simpler function for it.
> 
> If not then it goes on the wish list.
> 
> Thanks.  Sorry to ramble on.
> -Roger

"abc:".chomp(":")
or
"abc:".chomp!(":")

Regards,

Siep
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