I made these two functions to extend the default String object:
class String
def rtrim(character)
if self[-1, 1] == character.to_s
self[0, self.length - 1]
end
return self
end
def ltrim(character)
if self[0, 1] == character.to_s
self[1, self.length]
end
return self
end
end
Are they ok? I mean, aren’t there any default Ruby functions I am
copying? I looked on google for functions that did the same as above
functions, but I couldn’t find any for Ruby.
Pfff… Sorry for the second post. I couldn’t find the first one on
Google groups.
I tried changing the self object. But I wasn’t allowed to do it. I got
an error message when I did that:
“Can’t change the value of self”
So I changed it to:
class String
def rtrim(character)
ret = self
if self[-1, 1] == character.to_s
ret = self[0, self.length - 1]
end
return ret
end
def ltrim(character)
if self[0, 1] == character.to_s
ret = self[1, self.length]
end
return ret
end
end
This works. But I would rather see the first object changed. Is this
possible?
This works. But I would rather see the first object changed. Is this
possible?
I would argue that ltrim and rtrim should not remove one character, but
a sequence of the given character. The following code probably does
not meet all ruby conventions, but it does what you request and it does
reserve ! for its intended purpose.
class String
def rtrim!(character)
n = 0
while (self[-(n+1), 1] == character.to_s)
n +=1
end
self.slice!(self.length - n,n) if n > 0
end
def ltrim!(character)
n = 0
while (self[n, 1] == character.to_s)
n += 1
end
self.slice!(0 , n) if n > 0
end
end
s = “aaaaaabacbccccc”
p s
s.rtrim!(“c”)
p s
s.ltrim!(“b”)
p s
s.ltrim!(“a”)
p s
This works. But I would rather see the first object changed. Is this
possible?
I would argue that ltrim and rtrim should not remove one character, but
a sequence of the given character. The following code probably does
not meet all ruby conventions, but it does what you request and it does
reserve ! for its intended purpose.
Since we got the power of regex/gsub, let’s use it
class String
def rtrim(char)
dump.rtrim!(char)
end
def rtrim!(char)
gsub!(/#{Regexp.escape(char)}+$/, ‘’)
end
def ltrim(char)
dump.ltrim!(char)
end
def ltrim!(char)
gsub!(/^#{Regexp.escape(char)}+/, ‘’)
end
end
s = “aaaaaabacbccccc”
p s
s.rtrim!(“c”)
p s
s.ltrim!(“b”)
p s
s.ltrim!(“a”)
p s
Since we got the power of regex/gsub, let’s use it
Michael,
Thanks. I agree that in practice your code is better.
I am a newbie who does not yet feel comfortable with
regular expressions, but I see what you have done.
Ian
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