How to delete specific characters from a string in Ruby?

Question

I have several strings that look like this:

\"((String1))\"

They are all different lengths. How could I remove the parentheses from all these s

Answer 1

If you just want to remove the first two characters and the last two, then you can use negative indexes on the string:

s = "((String1))"
s = s[2...-2]
p s # => "String1"

If you want to remove all parentheses from the string you can use the delete method on the string class:

s = "((String1))"
s.delete! '()'
p s #  => "String1"