Returns true if str
starts with one of the prefixes
given. Each of the prefixes
should be a String
or a Regexp
.
"hello".start_with?("hell") #=> true "hello".start_with?(/H/i) #=> true # returns true if one of the prefixes matches. "hello".start_with?("heaven", "hell") #=> true "hello".start_with?("heaven", "paradise") #=> false
Passes the Integer
ordinal of each character in str, also known as a codepoint when applied to Unicode strings to the given block. For encodings other than UTF-8/UTF-16(BE|LE)/UTF-32(BE|LE), values are directly derived from the binary representation of each character.
If no block is given, an enumerator is returned instead.
"hello\u0639".each_codepoint {|c| print c, ' ' }
produces:
104 101 108 108 111 1593
Changes the encoding to encoding
and returns self.
Returns true for a string which is encoded correctly.
"\xc2\xa1".force_encoding("UTF-8").valid_encoding? #=> true "\xc2".force_encoding("UTF-8").valid_encoding? #=> false "\x80".force_encoding("UTF-8").valid_encoding? #=> false
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
Returns whether ASCII-compatible or not.
Encoding::UTF_8.ascii_compatible? #=> true Encoding::UTF_16BE.ascii_compatible? #=> false
Returns the list of available encoding names.
Encoding.name_list #=> ["US-ASCII", "ASCII-8BIT", "UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1", "Shift_JIS", "EUC-JP", "Windows-31J", "BINARY", "CP932", "eucJP"]
Returns a hash, that will be turned into a JSON
object and represent this object.
Returns true
if mod is a singleton class or false
if it is an ordinary class or module.
class C end C.singleton_class? #=> false C.singleton_class.singleton_class? #=> true
return the JSON
value
Returns a hash, that will be turned into a JSON
object and represent this object.
Returns true if the given week date is valid, and false if not.
Date.valid_commercial?(2001,5,6) #=> true Date.valid_commercial?(2001,5,8) #=> false
See also ::jd
and ::commercial
.
Returns the fractional part of the day.
DateTime.new(2001,2,3,12).day_fraction #=> (1/2)
Duplicates self and resets its day of calendar reform.
d = Date.new(1582,10,15) d.new_start(Date::JULIAN) #=> #<Date: 1582-10-05 ...>