Converts the given hash to a marshalled object.
Returns the given hash if an exception occurs.
Replaces the contents of self with the contents of other_ary, truncating or expanding if necessary.
a = [ "a", "b", "c", "d", "e" ] a.replace([ "x", "y", "z" ]) #=> ["x", "y", "z"] a #=> ["x", "y", "z"]
Returns a hash, that will be turned into a JSON object and represent this object.
Numerics are immutable values, which should not be copied.
Any attempt to use this method on a Numeric will raise a TypeError.
Returns a normalized form of str, using Unicode normalizations NFC, NFD, NFKC, or NFKD. The normalization form used is determined by form, which is any of the four values :nfc, :nfd, :nfkc, or :nfkd. The default is :nfc.
If the string is not in a Unicode Encoding, then an Exception is raised. In this context, ‘Unicode Encoding’ means any of UTF-8, UTF-16BE/LE, and UTF-32BE/LE, as well as GB18030, UCS_2BE, and UCS_4BE. Anything else than UTF-8 is implemented by converting to UTF-8, which makes it slower than UTF-8.
Examples
"a\u0300".unicode_normalize #=> 'à' (same as "\u00E0") "a\u0300".unicode_normalize(:nfc) #=> 'à' (same as "\u00E0") "\u00E0".unicode_normalize(:nfd) #=> 'à' (same as "a\u0300") "\xE0".force_encoding('ISO-8859-1').unicode_normalize(:nfd) #=> Encoding::CompatibilityError raised
Destructive version of String#unicode_normalize, doing Unicode normalization in place.
Checks whether str is in Unicode normalization form form, which is any of the four values :nfc, :nfd, :nfkc, or :nfkd. The default is :nfc.
If the string is not in a Unicode Encoding, then an Exception is raised. For details, see String#unicode_normalize.
Examples
"a\u0300".unicode_normalized? #=> false "a\u0300".unicode_normalized?(:nfd) #=> true "\u00E0".unicode_normalized? #=> true "\u00E0".unicode_normalized?(:nfd) #=> false "\xE0".force_encoding('ISO-8859-1').unicode_normalized? #=> Encoding::CompatibilityError raised
Replaces the contents and taintedness of str with the corresponding values in other_str.
s = "hello" #=> "hello" s.replace "world" #=> "world"
Returns self.
If called on a subclass of String, converts the receiver to a String object.
Returns true if str starts with one of the prefixes given.
"hello".start_with?("hell") #=> true # returns true if one of the prefixes matches. "hello".start_with?("heaven", "hell") #=> true "hello".start_with?("heaven", "paradise") #=> false
Passes the Integer ordinal of each character in str, also known as a codepoint when applied to Unicode strings to the given block.
If no block is given, an enumerator is returned instead.
"hello\u0639".each_codepoint {|c| print c, ' ' }
produces:
104 101 108 108 111 1593
Changes the encoding to encoding and returns self.
Returns true for a string which encoded correctly.
"\xc2\xa1".force_encoding("UTF-8").valid_encoding? #=> true "\xc2".force_encoding("UTF-8").valid_encoding? #=> false "\x80".force_encoding("UTF-8").valid_encoding? #=> false
Returns true for a string which has only ASCII characters.
"abc".force_encoding("UTF-8").ascii_only? #=> true "abc\u{6666}".force_encoding("UTF-8").ascii_only? #=> false
Returns whether ASCII-compatible or not.
Encoding::UTF_8.ascii_compatible? #=> true Encoding::UTF_16BE.ascii_compatible? #=> false
Returns the list of available encoding names.
Encoding.name_list
#=> ["US-ASCII", "ASCII-8BIT", "UTF-8",
"ISO-8859-1", "Shift_JIS", "EUC-JP",
"Windows-31J",
"BINARY", "CP932", "eucJP"]
Returns the singleton class of obj. This method creates a new singleton class if obj does not have one.
If obj is nil, true, or false, it returns NilClass, TrueClass, or FalseClass, respectively. If obj is a Fixnum or a Symbol, it raises a TypeError.
Object.new.singleton_class #=> #<Class:#<Object:0xb7ce1e24>> String.singleton_class #=> #<Class:String> nil.singleton_class #=> NilClass