Returns the list of loaded encodings.
Encoding.list #=> [#<Encoding:ASCII-8BIT>, #<Encoding:UTF-8>, #<Encoding:ISO-2022-JP (dummy)>] Encoding.find("US-ASCII") #=> #<Encoding:US-ASCII> Encoding.list #=> [#<Encoding:ASCII-8BIT>, #<Encoding:UTF-8>, #<Encoding:US-ASCII>, #<Encoding:ISO-2022-JP (dummy)>]
Returns the hash of available encoding alias and original encoding name.
Encoding.aliases #=> {"BINARY"=>"ASCII-8BIT", "ASCII"=>"US-ASCII", "ANSI_X3.4-1986"=>"US-ASCII", "SJIS"=>"Shift_JIS", "eucJP"=>"EUC-JP", "CP932"=>"Windows-31J"}
With no argument, or if the argument is the same as the receiver, return the receiver. Otherwise, create a new exception object of the same class as the receiver, but with a message equal to string.to_str
.
With no argument, or if the argument is the same as the receiver, return the receiver. Otherwise, create a new exception object of the same class as the receiver, but with a message equal to string.to_str
.
Returns any backtrace associated with the exception. The backtrace is an array of strings, each containing either “filename:lineNo: in ‘method”’ or “filename:lineNo.”
def a raise "boom" end def b a() end begin b() rescue => detail print detail.backtrace.join("\n") end
produces:
prog.rb:2:in `a' prog.rb:6:in `b' prog.rb:10
Returns true
if exiting successful, false
if not.
Return the receiver associated with this NameError
exception.
Returns a list of modules included/prepended in mod (including mod itself).
module Mod include Math include Comparable prepend Enumerable end Mod.ancestors #=> [Enumerable, Mod, Comparable, Math] Math.ancestors #=> [Math] Enumerable.ancestors #=> [Enumerable]
Limit the number of significant digits in newly created BigDecimal
numbers to the specified value. Rounding is performed as necessary, as specified by BigDecimal.mode
.
A limit of 0, the default, means no upper limit.
The limit specified by this method takes less priority over any limit specified to instance methods such as ceil, floor, truncate, or round.
Splits a BigDecimal
number into four parts, returned as an array of values.
The first value represents the sign of the BigDecimal
, and is -1 or 1, or 0 if the BigDecimal
is Not a Number.
The second value is a string representing the significant digits of the BigDecimal
, with no leading zeros.
The third value is the base used for arithmetic (currently always 10) as an Integer
.
The fourth value is an Integer
exponent.
If the BigDecimal
can be represented as 0.xxxxxx*10**n, then xxxxxx is the string of significant digits with no leading zeros, and n is the exponent.
From these values, you can translate a BigDecimal
to a float as follows:
sign, significant_digits, base, exponent = a.split f = sign * "0.#{significant_digits}".to_f * (base ** exponent)
(Note that the to_f
method is provided as a more convenient way to translate a BigDecimal
to a Float
.)
Return the smallest integer greater than or equal to the value, as a BigDecimal
.
BigDecimal('3.14159').ceil #=> 4 BigDecimal('-9.1').ceil #=> -9
If n is specified and positive, the fractional part of the result has no more than that many digits.
If n is specified and negative, at least that many digits to the left of the decimal point will be 0 in the result.
BigDecimal('3.14159').ceil(3) #=> 3.142 BigDecimal('13345.234').ceil(-2) #=> 13400.0
The coerce method provides support for Ruby type coercion. It is not enabled by default.
This means that binary operations like + * / or - can often be performed on a BigDecimal
and an object of another type, if the other object can be coerced into a BigDecimal
value.
e.g.
a = BigDecimal.new("1.0") b = a / 2.0 #=> 0.5
Note that coercing a String to a BigDecimal
is not supported by default; it requires a special compile-time option when building Ruby.
Returns the truncated value (toward positive infinity).
Rational(3).ceil #=> 3 Rational(2, 3).ceil #=> 1 Rational(-3, 2).ceil #=> -1 # decimal - 1 2 3 . 4 5 6 # ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ # precision -3 -2 -1 0 +1 +2 '%f' % Rational('-123.456').ceil(+1) #=> "-123.400000" '%f' % Rational('-123.456').ceil(-1) #=> "-120.000000"
Returns a simpler approximation of the value if the optional argument eps is given (rat-|eps| <= result <= rat+|eps|), self otherwise.
r = Rational(5033165, 16777216) r.rationalize #=> (5033165/16777216) r.rationalize(Rational('0.01')) #=> (3/10) r.rationalize(Rational('0.1')) #=> (1/3)
Returns true if the date is before the day of calendar reform.
Date.new(1582,10,15).julian? #=> false (Date.new(1582,10,15) - 1).julian? #=> true
This method is equivalent to new_start
(Date::JULIAN
).
Replaces the contents of the database with the contents of the specified object. Takes any object which implements the each_pair
method, including Hash
and DBM
objects.
Reads the entire file specified by name as individual lines, and returns those lines in an array. Lines are separated by sep.
a = IO.readlines("testfile") a[0] #=> "This is line one\n"
If the last argument is a hash, it’s the keyword argument to open. See IO.read
for detail.
Returns the current line number in ios. The stream must be opened for reading. lineno
counts the number of times gets
is called rather than the number of newlines encountered. The two values will differ if gets
is called with a separator other than newline.
Methods that use $/
like each
, lines
and readline
will also increment lineno
.
See also the $.
variable.
f = File.new("testfile") f.lineno #=> 0 f.gets #=> "This is line one\n" f.lineno #=> 1 f.gets #=> "This is line two\n" f.lineno #=> 2
Manually sets the current line number to the given value. $.
is updated only on the next read.
f = File.new("testfile") f.gets #=> "This is line one\n" $. #=> 1 f.lineno = 1000 f.lineno #=> 1000 $. #=> 1 # lineno of last read f.gets #=> "This is line two\n" $. #=> 1001 # lineno of last read
Reads all of the lines in ios, and returns them in anArray. Lines are separated by the optional sep. If sep is nil
, the rest of the stream is returned as a single record. If the first argument is an integer, or optional second argument is given, the returning string would not be longer than the given value in bytes. The stream must be opened for reading or an IOError
will be raised.
f = File.new("testfile") f.readlines[0] #=> "This is line one\n"
Replaces the content of gdbm with the key-value pairs of other. other must have an each_pair
method.
Returns the original string of the pattern.
/ab+c/ix.source #=> "ab+c"
Note that escape sequences are retained as is.
/\x20\+/.source #=> "\\x20\\+"