From: trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2009-06-09T07:07:57+09:00
Subject: Re: strip doesn't take a character set?



On Jun 8, 5:57 pm, Xeno Campanoli <xeno.campan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Maybe

  str.sub(/^\D*(.*)\D*$/, '\1')

T.