From: Dossy <dossy@...>
Date: 2002-07-23T20:07:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Strings and member-operators

On 2002.07.23, David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> wrote:
>   class String
>     def stripQuotes
>       /^("?)(.*?)(\1)$/.match(self)[2].strip
>     end
>   end

Very cool.  I wonder why you had to wrap \1 in parens, though.
Just for visual symmetry, or did it only work that way?

-- Dossy

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