Strip()

Regular expression version of strip() built in function.

Author: nitin42

project3.py

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# Regular expression version for strip() function
+
+# If no arguments passed to strip() then remove whitespaces from beginning and end.
+
+# Otherwise characters specified as second argument in strip() will be removed from the string
+
+import re
+
+string_in = raw_input("Enter the string")
+
+char_rem  = raw_input("Enter the character")
+
+def regex_strip(string_in,char_rem):
+
+	a = re.compile(r'[%s]'%(char_rem))
+     
+    # sub(pattern,replace,string,max=0)
+    
+	return a.sub('',string_in)
+
+print (regex_strip(string_in,char_rem))
+
+