From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2009-06-09T09:12:25+09:00
Subject: Re: strip doesn't take a character set?

Robert Klemme wrote:
> 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]

And a final tweak to account for \n:
  newstr = str.sub /\A\D*(.*?)\D*\z/m, '\\1'
  newstr = str[/\A\D*(.*?)\D*\z/m, 1]