From 32363e20947cfa70239234d6ccc8e39cac643aa7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kotfu <kotfu@kotfu.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 16:43:30 -0600
Subject: extract strip_quotes() to utils module

---
 cmd2/utils.py | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

(limited to 'cmd2/utils.py')

diff --git a/cmd2/utils.py b/cmd2/utils.py
index 33215dc0..6abab94c 100644
--- a/cmd2/utils.py
+++ b/cmd2/utils.py
@@ -11,3 +11,15 @@ def strip_ansi(text: str) -> str:
     :return: the same string with any ANSI escape codes removed
     """
     return constants.ANSI_ESCAPE_RE.sub('', text)
+
+def strip_quotes(arg: str) -> str:
+    """ Strip outer quotes from a string.
+
+     Applies to both single and double quotes.
+
+    :param arg:  string to strip outer quotes from
+    :return: same string with potentially outer quotes stripped
+    """
+    if len(arg) > 1 and arg[0] == arg[-1] and arg[0] in constants.QUOTES:
+        arg = arg[1:-1]
+    return arg
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