From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-06-09T07:10:06+09:00
Subject: Re: strip doesn't take a character set?

On 08.06.2009 23:57, Xeno Campanoli 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

newstr = str.sub /\A\D*(.*?)\D*\z/, '\\1'
newstr = str[/\A\D*(.*?)\D*\z/, 1]

Kind regards

	robert

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