From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-07-23T20:24:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Strings and member-operators

Hi --

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Dossy wrote:

> 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?

Good question.  I think it was left over from some intermediate
version that used the grouping for something.  It can definitely go.


David

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