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

Using String#gsub with regular expression:

"((String1))".gsub(/^\(+|\)+$/, '')
# => "String1"
"(((((( parentheses )))".gsub(/^\(+|\)+$/, '')
# => " parentheses "

This will remove surrounding parentheses only.

"(((((( This (is) string )))".gsub(/^\(+|\)+$/, '')
# => " This (is) string "