From: the Bare <grrr@...>
Date: 2002-07-23T08:05:31+09:00
Subject: Strings and member-operators

Hi:

I'm looking for a way to strip the quotes (and whitespace) off of a 
string.  Right now, I'm using:

class String
     def stripQuotes
         s = sub( '^\"', " " )
         s.sub!( '\"$', " " )
         return s.strip!
     end
end

This hardly strikes me as the most elegant way.  In particular, a nil is 
returned if the string is unquoted, and the only way I can see to get 
around this is by adding more regular expressions to check for the 
existence of quotes.

A problem I'm having is that I can't seem to figure out how to get at 
the underlying string data (like an array) in a member function.

On a related note, and regardless of any suggestions on how to do what I 
want to do, how does one call a member operator in a member function?

Thanks,
Cameron