From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2002-07-24T01:36:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Strings and member-operators

really? what did it fail on?


On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 10:24, Dossy wrote:
> On 2002.07.24, Dossy <dossy@panoptic.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Oh, and your code doesn't work, either.  It doesn't make all the
> tests pass:
> 
>     Loaded suite tc_ts_strip_quotes
>     Started...
>     ..
>     Failure occurred in test_do_nothing(StripQuotesTest)
>     [tc_ts_strip_quotes.rb:5]: Expected <foo> but was <nil>
>     .
>     Failure occurred in test_strip_doublequotes(StripQuotesTest)
>     [tc_ts_strip_quotes.rb:9]: didn't remove outer double quotes. Expected
>     <foo> but was <foo">
>     .
>     Failure occurred in test_strip_whitespace(StripQuotesTest)
>     [tc_ts_strip_quotes.rb:20]: didn't strip trailing whitespace. Expected
>     <foo> but was <nil>
> 
>     Finished in 0.00509 seconds.
>     3 runs, 3 assertions, 3 failures, 0 errors
> 
> -- Dossy
> 
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