From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2002-07-23T09:03:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Strings and member-operators

On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 17:05, the Bare wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to strip the quotes (and whitespace) off of a 
> string.

class String

  # removes single or double quotes from around string
  def unquote
    astr = self.dup.strip
    if astr[1..1] == '"'
      return astr.reverse.chomp('"').reverse.chomp('"')
    elsif astr[1..1] == "'"
      return astr.reverse.chomp("'").reverse.chomp("'")
    end
  end

  # Inplace unquote
  def unquote!
    self.replace(unquote)
  end

end


as you can see i added this to the String class so its available all the
time. but now that i think about it, it would probably be better to use:

  return astr[1..-2]

don't you think?

~transami