From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-08-08T22:20:47+09:00
Subject: Re: strip with some other character

2008/8/8 Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Junkone <junkone1@gmail.com> wrote:
>> strip function removes the trailing whitespace. i want to remove
>> trailing comma's. is there a additional parameter for strip or some
>> other function to do the same.
>
> string.gsub(/^,+/, '').gsub(/,+$/, '')

This can be done with a single gsub:

irb(main):001:0> s=",,a,,"
=> ",,a,,"
irb(main):002:0> s.gsub %r{^,+|,+$}, ''
=> "a"

However, both strip trailing and leading commas.  So for trailing
commas this should be sufficient

irb(main):003:0> s.gsub %r{,+$}, ''
=> ",,a"

OP: And of course, use gsub! for inplace modification if you want that.

Kind regards

robert

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