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Kashiftufail
Kashiftufail

Reputation: 10885

how i can remove quotes around string

Hi i want to remove quotes around this string

str =  "[Date.UTC(2012,07,03,04,07,09),2.0]"

and want result like this 

  [Date.UTC(2012,07,03,04,07,09),2.0]

Any help will be apperciated...

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2121

Answers (2)

Sergio Tulentsev
Sergio Tulentsev

Reputation: 230346

I think you want eval. It takes a string and evaluates it as ruby code.

str = "[Date.UTC(2012,07,03,04,07,09),2.0]"
a = eval str

By the way, this string isn't valid ruby code. Primarily because 09 is parsed as octal number, and 09 is not a valid octal number. Secondly, there's no UTC method on Date class (in the stdlib, anyway).

Edit

If you want to take this string and pass it to javascript, then just render it in the template.

# action.html.erb
<%= javascript_tag do %>    
  <%= str %>
<% end %>

Upvotes: 3

Larsenal
Larsenal

Reputation: 51156

If you're truly just asking about string manipulation... If the quotes are at the beginning and end of the string...

str = "abcdef"
trimmed = str[1..-2] #equals "bcde"

Upvotes: 2

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