Produces a shallow copy of obj—the instance variables of obj are copied, but not the objects they reference. clone copies the frozen (unless :freeze keyword argument is given with a false value) and tainted state of obj. See also the discussion under Object#dup.
class Klass attr_accessor :str end s1 = Klass.new #=> #<Klass:0x401b3a38> s1.str = "Hello" #=> "Hello" s2 = s1.clone #=> #<Klass:0x401b3998 @str="Hello"> s2.str[1,4] = "i" #=> "i" s1.inspect #=> "#<Klass:0x401b3a38 @str=\"Hi\">" s2.inspect #=> "#<Klass:0x401b3998 @str=\"Hi\">"
This method may have class-specific behavior. If so, that behavior will be documented under the #initialize_copy method of the class.
Returns an array with both a numeric and a big represented as Bignum objects.
This is achieved by converting numeric to a Bignum.
A TypeError is raised if the numeric is not a Fixnum or Bignum type.
(0x3FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF+1).coerce(42) #=> [42, 4611686018427387904]
provides a unified clone operation, for REXML::XPathParser to use across multiple Object types
Returns the largest number less than or equal to int in decimal digits (default 0 digits).
Precision may be negative. Returns a floating point number when ndigits is positive, self for zero, and floor down for negative.
1.floor #=> 1 1.floor(2) #=> 1.0 15.floor(-1) #=> 10
Returns the remainder after dividing big by numeric as:
x.remainder(y) means x-y*(x/y).truncate
Examples
5.remainder(3) #=> 2 -5.remainder(3) #=> -2 5.remainder(-3) #=> 2 -5.remainder(-3) #=> -2 -1234567890987654321.remainder(13731) #=> -6966 -1234567890987654321.remainder(13731.24) #=> -9906.22531493148
See Numeric#divmod.
Returns self.
Returns the numerator.
1 2 3+4i <- numerator
- + -i -> ----
2 3 6 <- denominator
c = Complex('1/2+2/3i') #=> ((1/2)+(2/3)*i)
n = c.numerator #=> (3+4i)
d = c.denominator #=> 6
n / d #=> ((1/2)+(2/3)*i)
Complex(Rational(n.real, d), Rational(n.imag, d))
#=> ((1/2)+(2/3)*i)
See denominator.
If a numeric is the same type as num, returns an array containing numeric and num. Otherwise, returns an array with both a numeric and num represented as Float objects.
This coercion mechanism is used by Ruby to handle mixed-type numeric operations: it is intended to find a compatible common type between the two operands of the operator.
1.coerce(2.5) #=> [2.5, 1.0] 1.2.coerce(3) #=> [3.0, 1.2] 1.coerce(2) #=> [2, 1]
Returns true if num has a zero value.
Returns self if num is not zero, nil otherwise.
This behavior is useful when chaining comparisons:
a = %w( z Bb bB bb BB a aA Aa AA A ) b = a.sort {|a,b| (a.downcase <=> b.downcase).nonzero? || a <=> b } b #=> ["A", "a", "AA", "Aa", "aA", "BB", "Bb", "bB", "bb", "z"]
Returns the largest integer less than or equal to num.
Numeric implements this by converting an Integer to a Float and invoking Float#floor.
1.floor #=> 1 (-1).floor #=> -1
Returns the numerator.
Convert self to locale encoding
Inserts other_str before the character at the given index, modifying str. Negative indices count from the end of the string, and insert after the given character. The intent is insert aString so that it starts at the given index.
"abcd".insert(0, 'X') #=> "Xabcd" "abcd".insert(3, 'X') #=> "abcXd" "abcd".insert(4, 'X') #=> "abcdX" "abcd".insert(-3, 'X') #=> "abXcd" "abcd".insert(-1, 'X') #=> "abcdX"
returns the indexth byte as an integer.
Returns a new string with the characters from str in reverse order.
"stressed".reverse #=> "desserts"
Reverses str in place.
Returns the Symbol corresponding to str, creating the symbol if it did not previously exist. See Symbol#id2name.
"Koala".intern #=> :Koala s = 'cat'.to_sym #=> :cat s == :cat #=> true s = '@cat'.to_sym #=> :@cat s == :@cat #=> true
This can also be used to create symbols that cannot be represented using the :xxx notation.
'cat and dog'.to_sym #=> :"cat and dog"
Centers str in width. If width is greater than the length of str, returns a new String of length width with str centered and padded with padstr; otherwise, returns str.
"hello".center(4) #=> "hello" "hello".center(20) #=> " hello " "hello".center(20, '123') #=> "1231231hello12312312"
provides a unified clone operation, for REXML::XPathParser to use across multiple Object types
Returns an array with both a numeric and a float represented as Float objects.
This is achieved by converting a numeric to a Float.
1.2.coerce(3) #=> [3.0, 1.2] 2.5.coerce(1.1) #=> [1.1, 2.5]
Return the modulo after division of float by other.
6543.21.modulo(137) #=> 104.21 6543.21.modulo(137.24) #=> 92.9299999999996