From: Dossy <dossy@...>
Date: 2002-07-24T01:23:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Strings and member-operators

On 2002.07.24, Tom Sawyer <transami@transami.net> wrote:
> let me get this straight? is the original question how to strip a string
> and remove quotes?
> 
>   /^("?)(.*)\1$/.match(self)[2].strip
> 
> this only does double quotes and its striping after the quotes removal.
> is that what's wanted? well, i'll assume so. what about without regexp?
> 
>   return str[1..-1].strip if str[0..0] + str[-1..-1] == '""'
> 
> hmmm... you'd think there'd be a real simple way to do this without
> regexp, can it get any simpler?

It's faster using regexp.  Fewer intermediate temporary objects created.

-- Dossy

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