Returns a rational which denotes the string form. The parser ignores leading whitespaces and trailing garbage. Any digit sequences can be separated by an underscore. Returns zero for null or garbage string.
NOTE: ‘0.3’.to_r isn’t the same as 0.3.to_r. The former is equivalent to ‘3/10’.to_r, but the latter isn’t so.
' 2 '.to_r #=> (2/1) '300/2'.to_r #=> (150/1) '-9.2'.to_r #=> (-46/5) '-9.2e2'.to_r #=> (-920/1) '1_234_567'.to_r #=> (1234567/1) '21 june 09'.to_r #=> (21/1) '21/06/09'.to_r #=> (7/2) 'bwv 1079'.to_r #=> (0/1)
See Kernel.Rational.
Iterates through successive values, starting at str and ending at other_str inclusive, passing each value in turn to the block. The String#succ method is used to generate each value. If optional second argument exclusive is omitted or is false, the last value will be included; otherwise it will be excluded.
If no block is given, an enumerator is returned instead.
"a8".upto("b6") {|s| print s, ' ' } for s in "a8".."b6" print s, ' ' end
produces:
a8 a9 b0 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6 a8 a9 b0 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6
If str and other_str contains only ascii numeric characters, both are recognized as decimal numbers. In addition, the width of string (e.g. leading zeros) is handled appropriately.
"9".upto("11").to_a #=> ["9", "10", "11"] "25".upto("5").to_a #=> [] "07".upto("11").to_a #=> ["07", "08", "09", "10", "11"]
Replaces the contents and taintedness of str with the corresponding values in other_str.
s = "hello" #=> "hello" s.replace "world" #=> "world"
Returns the result of interpreting leading characters in str as an integer base base (between 2 and 36). Extraneous characters past the end of a valid number are ignored. If there is not a valid number at the start of str, 0 is returned. This method never raises an exception when base is valid.
"12345".to_i #=> 12345 "99 red balloons".to_i #=> 99 "0a".to_i #=> 0 "0a".to_i(16) #=> 10 "hello".to_i #=> 0 "1100101".to_i(2) #=> 101 "1100101".to_i(8) #=> 294977 "1100101".to_i(10) #=> 1100101 "1100101".to_i(16) #=> 17826049
Returns the result of interpreting leading characters in str as a floating point number. Extraneous characters past the end of a valid number are ignored. If there is not a valid number at the start of str, 0.0 is returned. This method never raises an exception.
"123.45e1".to_f #=> 1234.5 "45.67 degrees".to_f #=> 45.67 "thx1138".to_f #=> 0.0
Returns self.
If called on a subclass of String, converts the receiver to a String object.
Returns a new string with the characters from str in reverse order.
"stressed".reverse #=> "desserts"
Reverses str in place.
Prepend—Prepend the given strings to str.
a = "!" a.prepend("hello ", "world") #=> "hello world!" a #=> "hello world!"
See also String#concat.
If integer is greater than the length of str, returns a new String of length integer with str left justified and padded with padstr; otherwise, returns str.
"hello".ljust(4) #=> "hello" "hello".ljust(20) #=> "hello " "hello".ljust(20, '1234') #=> "hello123412341234123"
If integer is greater than the length of str, returns a new String of length integer with str right justified and padded with padstr; otherwise, returns str.
"hello".rjust(4) #=> "hello" "hello".rjust(20) #=> " hello" "hello".rjust(20, '1234') #=> "123412341234123hello"
Returns a copy of str with leading and trailing whitespace removed.
Whitespace is defined as any of the following characters: null, horizontal tab, line feed, vertical tab, form feed, carriage return, space.
" hello ".strip #=> "hello" "\tgoodbye\r\n".strip #=> "goodbye" "\x00\t\n\v\f\r ".strip #=> ""
Returns a copy of str with leading whitespace removed. See also String#rstrip and String#strip.
Refer to strip for the definition of whitespace.
" hello ".lstrip #=> "hello " "hello".lstrip #=> "hello"
Returns a copy of str with trailing whitespace removed. See also String#lstrip and String#strip.
Refer to strip for the definition of whitespace.
" hello ".rstrip #=> " hello" "hello".rstrip #=> "hello"
Removes leading and trailing whitespace from str. Returns nil if str was not altered.
Refer to strip for the definition of whitespace.
Removes leading whitespace from str, returning nil if no change was made. See also String#rstrip! and String#strip!.
Refer to strip for the definition of whitespace.
" hello ".lstrip! #=> "hello " "hello ".lstrip! #=> nil "hello".lstrip! #=> nil
Removes trailing whitespace from str, returning nil if no change was made. See also String#lstrip! and String#strip!.
Refer to strip for the definition of whitespace.
" hello ".rstrip! #=> " hello" " hello".rstrip! #=> nil "hello".rstrip! #=> nil
Returns the value of float as a BigDecimal. The precision parameter is used to determine the number of significant digits for the result (the default is Float::DIG).
require 'bigdecimal' require 'bigdecimal/util' 0.5.to_d # => 0.5e0 1.234.to_d(2) # => 0.12e1
See also BigDecimal::new.
Returns a string containing a representation of self. As well as a fixed or exponential form of the float, the call may return NaN, Infinity, and -Infinity.
Since float is already a float, returns self.
Returns the largest number less than or equal to float 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.
1.2.floor #=> 1 2.0.floor #=> 2 (-1.2).floor #=> -2 (-2.0).floor #=> -2 1.234567.floor(2) #=> 1.23 1.234567.floor(3) #=> 1.234 1.234567.floor(4) #=> 1.2345 1.234567.floor(5) #=> 1.23456 34567.89.floor(-5) #=> 0 34567.89.floor(-4) #=> 30000 34567.89.floor(-3) #=> 34000 34567.89.floor(-2) #=> 34500 34567.89.floor(-1) #=> 34560 34567.89.floor(0) #=> 34567 34567.89.floor(1) #=> 34567.8 34567.89.floor(2) #=> 34567.89 34567.89.floor(3) #=> 34567.89
Returns the value as a rational.
NOTE: 0.3.to_r isn’t the same as ‘0.3’.to_r. The latter is equivalent to ‘3/10’.to_r, but the former isn’t so.
2.0.to_r #=> (2/1) 2.5.to_r #=> (5/2) -0.75.to_r #=> (-3/4) 0.0.to_r #=> (0/1)
See rationalize.