From: jazzez ravi <jazzezravi@...>
Date: 2008-08-01T20:34:39+09:00
Subject: Re: String function to delete characters

Prasad wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>      Do we have a string function in RUBY to delete 1st  3 characters
> or last 3 character or 3 characters in middle from the string.
> 
> Ex:
> 
>      user =    aaaPrasadxxxPrasadxxx
> 
> from above string "user"  I want to delete 1st characters "aaa"
> In the same way I want to delete last 3 characters "xxx"  and , need
> to delete middle 3 characters "xxx"
> 
> to delete last 3 character &  1st 3 characters,  i have used code as
> below;
> 
>         user = user.chop.chop.chop
> 
>        user = user.reverse.chop.chop.chop.reverse
> 
> Other than this do we have any other string function in ruby?
> 
> could you please help in this issue.
> 

Hi Prasad,

This code only works when user="aaaPrasadxxxPrasadxxx"

irb(main):012:0>user = "aaaPrasadxxxPrasadxxx"
irb(main):012:0> user.gsub("xxx","").gsub("aaa","")
=> "PrasadPrasad"
irb(main):013:0>

In case you have more types of USer strings then just post here. We will 
try it..

Regards,
P.Raveendran,
RF,Chennai,
http://raveendran.wordpress.com
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