Jonathan (>), Ovid (>>), Larry (>>>): >>> Can't say I really like the negated options though. They smell funny. >> >> Agreed, but ltrim and rtrim will disappoint Israelis and dyslexics alike. >> Suggestions welcome as I can't think of anything better. > > The .Net framework calls 'em TrimStart and TrimEnd (and has a Trim that does > both). So maybe trim_start and trim_end if we wanted to take that lead...
How about .trim(:start) and .trim(:end)? // Carl
