Re: [PATCH] Add .trim method

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Ovid
<[email protected]>wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----
>
>
> > > > I could optionally make the following work:
> > > >
> > > >  $string.trim(:leading<0>);
> > > >  $string.trim(:trailing<0>);
>
> Alternatively, those could be ltrim() and rtrim().  If you need to
> dynamically determine what you're going to trim, you'd couldn't just set
> variables to do it, though. You'd have to figure out which methods to call.
>  Or all could be allowed and $string.trim(:leading<0>) could all
> $string.rtrim internally.
>

If I were going to have ltrim() and rtrim(), I'd implement them in terms of
trim() rather than the other way around.

-Scott
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Jonathan Scott Duff
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