From: Xeno Campanoli <xeno.campanoli@...>
Date: 2009-06-09T06:57:40+09:00
Subject: strip doesn't take a character set?

I wanna do something like newstr = str.strip(/\D/)

I know I could do newstr = str.sub(/^\D*/,'').sub(/\D*$/,''), but is there any 
better way?

xc