RosettaCodeData/Task/Substring-Top-and-tail/Sidef/substring-top-and-tail-2.sidef

var gstr = "J\x{332}o\x{332}s\x{332}e\x{301}\x{332}";
say gstr-/^\X/;                    # strip first grapheme
say gstr-/\X\z/;                   # strip last grapheme
say gstr.sub(/^\X/).sub(/\X\z/);   # strip both first and last graphemes