Returns a copy of str with leading prefix deleted.
"hello".delete_prefix("hel") #=> "lo" "hello".delete_prefix("llo") #=> "hello"
Returns a copy of str with trailing suffix deleted.
"hello".delete_suffix("llo") #=> "he" "hello".delete_suffix("hel") #=> "hello"
Deletes leading prefix from str, returning nil if no change was made.
"hello".delete_prefix!("hel") #=> "lo" "hello".delete_prefix!("llo") #=> nil
Deletes trailing suffix from str, returning nil if no change was made.
"hello".delete_suffix!("llo") #=> "he" "hello".delete_suffix!("hel") #=> nil
Passes each byte in str to the given block, or returns an enumerator if no block is given.
"hello".each_byte {|c| print c, ' ' }
produces:
104 101 108 108 111
Passes each character in str to the given block, or returns an enumerator if no block is given.
"hello".each_char {|c| print c, ' ' }
produces:
h e l l o
Returns true for a string which has only ASCII characters.
"abc".force_encoding("UTF-8").ascii_only? #=> true "abc\u{6666}".force_encoding("UTF-8").ascii_only? #=> false
Unicode Normalization—Returns a normalized form of str, using Unicode normalizations NFC, NFD, NFKC, or NFKD. The normalization form used is determined by form, which can be any of the four values :nfc, :nfd, :nfkc, or :nfkd. The default is :nfc.
If the string is not in a Unicode Encoding, then an Exception is raised. In this context, ‘Unicode Encoding’ means any of UTF-8, UTF-16BE/LE, and UTF-32BE/LE, as well as GB18030, UCS_2BE, and UCS_4BE. Anything other than UTF-8 is implemented by converting to UTF-8, which makes it slower than UTF-8.
"a\u0300".unicode_normalize #=> "\u00E0" "a\u0300".unicode_normalize(:nfc) #=> "\u00E0" "\u00E0".unicode_normalize(:nfd) #=> "a\u0300" "\xE0".force_encoding('ISO-8859-1').unicode_normalize(:nfd) #=> Encoding::CompatibilityError raised
Destructive version of String#unicode_normalize, doing Unicode normalization in place.
Checks whether str is in Unicode normalization form form, which can be any of the four values :nfc, :nfd, :nfkc, or :nfkd. The default is :nfc.
If the string is not in a Unicode Encoding, then an Exception is raised. For details, see String#unicode_normalize.
"a\u0300".unicode_normalized? #=> false "a\u0300".unicode_normalized?(:nfd) #=> true "\u00E0".unicode_normalized? #=> true "\u00E0".unicode_normalized?(:nfd) #=> false "\xE0".force_encoding('ISO-8859-1').unicode_normalized? #=> Encoding::CompatibilityError raised
UNTESTED
Sanitize a single string.
Returns this attribute out as XML source, expanding the name
a = Attribute.new( "x", "y" ) a.to_string # -> "x='y'" b = Attribute.new( "ns:x", "y" ) b.to_string # -> "ns:x='y'"
A node-set is converted to a string by returning the concatenation of the string-value of each of the children of the node in the node-set that is first in document order. If the node-set is empty, an empty string is returned.
Generates a random string of length len
Generates a random string of length len
Passes each grapheme cluster in str to the given block, or returns an enumerator if no block is given. Unlike String#each_char, this enumerates by grapheme clusters defined by Unicode Standard Annex #29 unicode.org/reports/tr29/
"a\u0300".each_char.to_a.size #=> 2 "a\u0300".each_grapheme_cluster.to_a.size #=> 1
Returns a status string for the response.
Returns the error string corresponding to the error code retrieved by error.