Returns help string.
tobj = WIN32OLE_TYPE.new('Microsoft Internet Controls', 'IWebBrowser') puts tobj.helpstring # => Web Browser interface
Returns a value from the hash for the given key. If the key can’t be found, there are several options: With no other arguments, it will raise a KeyError exception; if default is given, then that will be returned; if the optional code block is specified, then that will be run and its result returned.
h = { "a" => 100, "b" => 200 } h.fetch("a") #=> 100 h.fetch("z", "go fish") #=> "go fish" h.fetch("z") { |el| "go fish, #{el}"} #=> "go fish, z"
The following example shows that an exception is raised if the key is not found and a default value is not supplied.
h = { "a" => 100, "b" => 200 } h.fetch("z")
produces:
prog.rb:2:in `fetch': key not found (KeyError) from prog.rb:2
Calls block once for each key in hsh, passing the key-value pair as parameters.
If no block is given, an enumerator is returned instead.
h = { "a" => 100, "b" => 200 } h.each {|key, value| puts "#{key} is #{value}" }
produces:
a is 100 b is 200
Retrieves the environment variable name.
If the given name does not exist and neither default nor a block a provided an IndexError is raised. If a block is given it is called with the missing name to provide a value. If a default value is given it will be returned when no block is given.
Yields each environment variable name and value.
If no block is given an Enumerator is returned.
Returns an enumerator which iterates over each line (separated by sep, which defaults to your platform’s newline character) of each file in ARGV. If a block is supplied, each line in turn will be yielded to the block, otherwise an enumerator is returned. The optional limit argument is an Integer specifying the maximum length of each line; longer lines will be split according to this limit.
This method allows you to treat the files supplied on the command line as a single file consisting of the concatenation of each named file. After the last line of the first file has been returned, the first line of the second file is returned. The ARGF.filename and ARGF.lineno methods can be used to determine the filename and line number, respectively, of the current line.
For example, the following code prints out each line of each named file prefixed with its line number, displaying the filename once per file:
ARGF.each_line do |line| puts ARGF.filename if ARGF.lineno == 1 puts "#{ARGF.lineno}: #{line}" end
This is a deprecated alias for each_char.
Reads the next character from ARGF and returns it as a String. Raises an EOFError after the last character of the last file has been read.
For example:
$ echo "foo" > file $ ruby argf.rb file ARGF.readchar #=> "f" ARGF.readchar #=> "o" ARGF.readchar #=> "o" ARGF.readchar #=> "\n" ARGF.readchar #=> end of file reached (EOFError)
This method is intended as the primary interface for reading CSV files. You pass a path and any options you wish to set for the read. Each row of file will be passed to the provided block in turn.
The options parameter can be anything CSV::new() understands. This method also understands an additional :encoding parameter that you can use to specify the Encoding of the data in the file to be read. You must provide this unless your data is in Encoding::default_external(). CSV will use this to determine how to parse the data. You may provide a second Encoding to have the data transcoded as it is read. For example, encoding: "UTF-32BE:UTF-8" would read UTF-32BE data from the file but transcode it to UTF-8 before CSV parses it.
Yields each row of the data source in turn.
Support for Enumerable.
The data source must be open for reading.
Iterator version of ‘get’.
The block is called repeatedly with two arguments: The first is the option name. The second is the argument which followed it (if any). Example: (‘–opt’, ‘value’)
The option name is always converted to the first (preferred) name given in the original options to GetoptLong.new.
Yields all elements of the matrix, starting with those of the first row, or returns an Enumerator if no block given. Elements can be restricted by passing an argument:
:all (default): yields all elements
:diagonal: yields only elements on the diagonal
:off_diagonal: yields all elements except on the diagonal
:lower: yields only elements on or below the diagonal
:strict_lower: yields only elements below the diagonal
:strict_upper: yields only elements above the diagonal
:upper: yields only elements on or above the diagonal
Matrix[ [1,2], [3,4] ].each { |e| puts e }
# => prints the numbers 1 to 4
Matrix[ [1,2], [3,4] ].each(:strict_lower).to_a # => [3]
Returns true if this is a symmetric matrix. Raises an error if matrix is not square.
Returns the Eigensystem of the matrix; see EigenvalueDecomposition.
m = Matrix[[1, 2], [3, 4]] v, d, v_inv = m.eigensystem d.diagonal? # => true v.inv == v_inv # => true (v * d * v_inv).round(5) == m # => true
Iterate over the elements of this vector
Iterate over the elements of this vector and v in conjunction.
Searches key in @stack for id hash and returns or yields the result.
Iterates the given block over all prime numbers.
uboundOptional. An arbitrary positive number. The upper bound of enumeration. The method enumerates prime numbers infinitely if ubound is nil.
generatorOptional. An implementation of pseudo-prime generator.
An evaluated value of the given block at the last time. Or an enumerator which is compatible to an Enumerator if no block given.
Calls block once for each prime number, passing the prime as a parameter.
uboundUpper bound of prime numbers. The iterator stops after it yields all prime numbers p <= ubound.
This method is just like PStore#[], save that you may also provide a default value for the object. In the event the specified name is not found in the data store, your default will be returned instead. If you do not specify a default, PStore::Error will be raised if the object is not found.
WARNING: This method is only valid in a PStore#transaction. It will raise PStore::Error if called at any other time.
Returns a string containing the character represented by the int‘s value according to encoding.
65.chr #=> "A" 230.chr #=> "\346" 255.chr(Encoding::UTF_8) #=> "\303\277"
Calls the given block once for each element in the set, passing the element as parameter. Returns an enumerator if no block is given.
Creates a Shell object which current directory is set to path.
If a block is given, it restores the current directory when the block ends.
If called as iterator, it restores the current directory when the block ends.
Calls the operating system function identified by num and returns the result of the function or raises SystemCallError if it failed.
Arguments for the function can follow num. They must be either String objects or Integer objects. A String object is passed as a pointer to the byte sequence. An Integer object is passed as an integer whose bit size is same as a pointer. Up to nine parameters may be passed.
The function identified by num is system dependent. On some Unix systems, the numbers may be obtained from a header file called syscall.h.
syscall 4, 1, "hello\n", 6 # '4' is write(2) on our box
produces:
hello
Calling syscall on a platform which does not have any way to an arbitrary system function just fails with NotImplementedError.
Note: syscall is essentially unsafe and unportable. Feel free to shoot your foot. The DL (Fiddle) library is preferred for safer and a bit more portable programming.
Executes command… in a subshell. command… is one of following forms.
commandline : command line string which is passed to the standard shell cmdname, arg1, ... : command name and one or more arguments (no shell) [cmdname, argv0], arg1, ... : command name, argv[0] and zero or more arguments (no shell)
system returns true if the command gives zero exit status, false for non zero exit status. Returns nil if command execution fails. An error status is available in $?. The arguments are processed in the same way as for Kernel.spawn.
The hash arguments, env and options, are same as exec and spawn. See Kernel.spawn for details.
system("echo *") system("echo", "*")
produces:
config.h main.rb *
See Kernel.exec for the standard shell.
Equivalent to ($_.dup).chop!, except nil is never returned. See String#chop!. Available only when -p/-n command line option specified.