Question

I have a string and I need to check whether the last character of that string is *, and if it is, I need to remove it.

if stringvariable.include? "*"
 newstring = stringvariable.gsub(/[*]/, '')
end

The above does not search if the ‘*’ symbol is the LAST character of the string.

How do i check if the last character is ‘*’?

Thanks for any suggestion

Answer 1

Use the $ anchor to only match the end of line:

"sample*".gsub(/\*$/, '')

If there’s the possibility of there being more than one * on the end of the string (and you want to replace them all) use:

"sample**".gsub(/\*+$/, '')