Returns true if num is a real number (i.e. not Complex).
Returns the largest number less than or equal to num with a precision of ndigits decimal digits (default: 0).
Numeric implements this by converting its value to a Float and invoking Float#floor.
Invokes the given block with the sequence of numbers starting at num, incremented by step (defaulted to 1) on each call.
The loop finishes when the value to be passed to the block is greater than limit (if step is positive) or less than limit (if step is negative), where limit is defaulted to infinity.
In the recommended keyword argument style, either or both of step and limit (default infinity) can be omitted. In the fixed position argument style, zero as a step (i.e. num.step(limit, 0)) is not allowed for historical compatibility reasons.
If all the arguments are integers, the loop operates using an integer counter.
If any of the arguments are floating point numbers, all are converted to floats, and the loop is executed floor(n + n*Float::EPSILON) + 1 times, where n = (limit - num)/step.
Otherwise, the loop starts at num, uses either the less-than (<) or greater-than (>) operator to compare the counter against limit, and increments itself using the + operator.
If no block is given, an Enumerator is returned instead.
For example:
p 1.step.take(4) p 10.step(by: -1).take(4) 3.step(to: 5) {|i| print i, " " } 1.step(10, 2) {|i| print i, " " } Math::E.step(to: Math::PI, by: 0.2) {|f| print f, " " }
Will produce:
[1, 2, 3, 4] [10, 9, 8, 7] 3 4 5 1 3 5 7 9 2.718281828459045 2.9182818284590453 3.118281828459045
Returns a complex 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.
'9'.to_c #=> (9+0i) '2.5'.to_c #=> (2.5+0i) '2.5/1'.to_c #=> ((5/2)+0i) '-3/2'.to_c #=> ((-3/2)+0i) '-i'.to_c #=> (0-1i) '45i'.to_c #=> (0+45i) '3-4i'.to_c #=> (3-4i) '-4e2-4e-2i'.to_c #=> (-400.0-0.04i) '-0.0-0.0i'.to_c #=> (-0.0-0.0i) '1/2+3/4i'.to_c #=> ((1/2)+(3/4)*i) 'ruby'.to_c #=> (0+0i)
See Kernel.Complex.
Returns the result of interpreting leading characters in str as a BigDecimal.
require 'bigdecimal' require 'bigdecimal/util' "0.5".to_d # => 0.5e0 "123.45e1".to_d # => 0.12345e4 "45.67 degrees".to_d # => 0.4567e2
See also BigDecimal::new.
Convert self to ISO-2022-JP
Convert self to EUC-JP
Convert self to Shift_JIS
Convert self to UTF-8
Convert self to UTF-16
Convert self to UTF-32
Convert self to locale encoding
Returns the result of interpreting leading characters in str as a rational. Leading whitespace and extraneous characters past the end of a valid number are ignored. Digit sequences can be separated by an underscore. If there is not a valid number at the start of str, zero is returned. This method never raises an exception.
' 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)
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.
"0.3".to_r == 3/10r #=> true 0.3.to_r == 3/10r #=> false
See also 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"