Element Reference — Returns the element at index, or returns a subarray starting at the start index and continuing for length elements, or returns a subarray specified by range of indices.
Negative indices count backward from the end of the array (-1 is the last element). For start and range cases the starting index is just before an element. Additionally, an empty array is returned when the starting index for an element range is at the end of the array.
Returns nil if the index (or starting index) are out of range.
a = [ "a", "b", "c", "d", "e" ] a[2] + a[0] + a[1] #=> "cab" a[6] #=> nil a[1, 2] #=> [ "b", "c" ] a[1..3] #=> [ "b", "c", "d" ] a[4..7] #=> [ "e" ] a[6..10] #=> nil a[-3, 3] #=> [ "c", "d", "e" ] # special cases a[5] #=> nil a[6, 1] #=> nil a[5, 1] #=> [] a[5..10] #=> []
Element Reference — If passed a single index, returns a substring of one character at that index. If passed a start index and a length, returns a substring containing length characters starting at the start index. If passed a range, its beginning and end are interpreted as offsets delimiting the substring to be returned.
In these three cases, if an index is negative, it is counted from the end of the string. For the start and range cases the starting index is just before a character and an index matching the string’s size. Additionally, an empty string is returned when the starting index for a character range is at the end of the string.
Returns nil if the initial index falls outside the string or the length is negative.
If a Regexp is supplied, the matching portion of the string is returned. If a capture follows the regular expression, which may be a capture group index or name, follows the regular expression that component of the MatchData is returned instead.
If a match_str is given, that string is returned if it occurs in the string.
Returns nil if the regular expression does not match or the match string cannot be found.
a = "hello there" a[1] #=> "e" a[2, 3] #=> "llo" a[2..3] #=> "ll" a[-3, 2] #=> "er" a[7..-2] #=> "her" a[-4..-2] #=> "her" a[-2..-4] #=> "" a[11, 0] #=> "" a[11] #=> nil a[12, 0] #=> nil a[12..-1] #=> nil a[/[aeiou](.)\1/] #=> "ell" a[/[aeiou](.)\1/, 0] #=> "ell" a[/[aeiou](.)\1/, 1] #=> "l" a[/[aeiou](.)\1/, 2] #=> nil a[/(?<vowel>[aeiou])(?<non_vowel>[^aeiou])/, "non_vowel"] #=> "l" a[/(?<vowel>[aeiou])(?<non_vowel>[^aeiou])/, "vowel"] #=> "e" a["lo"] #=> "lo" a["bye"] #=> nil
Returns sym.to_s[].
Parses src and return a string which was matched to pattern. pattern should be described as Regexp.
require 'ripper' p Ripper.slice('def m(a) nil end', 'ident') #=> "m" p Ripper.slice('def m(a) nil end', '[ident lparen rparen]+') #=> "m(a)" p Ripper.slice("<<EOS\nstring\nEOS", 'heredoc_beg nl $(tstring_content*) heredoc_end', 1) #=> "string\n"
Returns a hash containing only the given keys and their values.
h = { a: 100, b: 200, c: 300 } h.slice(:a) #=> {:a=>100} h.slice(:b, :c, :d) #=> {:b=>200, :c=>300}
Returns a hash containing only the given keys from ENV and their values.
ENV.slice("TERM","HOME") #=> {"TERM"=>"xterm-256color", "HOME"=>"/Users/rhc"}
Iterates the given block for each slice of <n> elements. If no block is given, returns an enumerator.
(1..10).each_slice(3) { |a| p a } # outputs below [1, 2, 3] [4, 5, 6] [7, 8, 9] [10]
Creates an enumerator for each chunked elements. The beginnings of chunks are defined by pattern and the block.
If pattern === elt returns true or the block returns true for the element, the element is beginning of a chunk.
The === and block is called from the first element to the last element of enum. The result for the first element is ignored.
The result enumerator yields the chunked elements as an array. So each method can be called as follows:
enum.slice_before(pattern).each { |ary| ... }
enum.slice_before { |elt| bool }.each { |ary| ... }
Other methods of the Enumerator class and Enumerable module, such as to_a, map, etc., are also usable.
For example, iteration over ChangeLog entries can be implemented as follows:
# iterate over ChangeLog entries. open("ChangeLog") { |f| f.slice_before(/\A\S/).each { |e| pp e } } # same as above. block is used instead of pattern argument. open("ChangeLog") { |f| f.slice_before { |line| /\A\S/ === line }.each { |e| pp e } }
“svn proplist -R” produces multiline output for each file. They can be chunked as follows:
IO.popen([{"LC_ALL"=>"C"}, "svn", "proplist", "-R"]) { |f| f.lines.slice_before(/\AProp/).each { |lines| p lines } } #=> ["Properties on '.':\n", " svn:ignore\n", " svk:merge\n"] # ["Properties on 'goruby.c':\n", " svn:eol-style\n"] # ["Properties on 'complex.c':\n", " svn:mime-type\n", " svn:eol-style\n"] # ["Properties on 'regparse.c':\n", " svn:eol-style\n"] # ...
If the block needs to maintain state over multiple elements, local variables can be used. For example, three or more consecutive increasing numbers can be squashed as follows (see chunk_while for a better way):
a = [0, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9] prev = a[0] p a.slice_before { |e| prev, prev2 = e, prev prev2 + 1 != e }.map { |es| es.length <= 2 ? es.join(",") : "#{es.first}-#{es.last}" }.join(",") #=> "0,2-4,6,7,9"
However local variables should be used carefully if the result enumerator is enumerated twice or more. The local variables should be initialized for each enumeration. Enumerator.new can be used to do it.
# Word wrapping. This assumes all characters have same width. def wordwrap(words, maxwidth) Enumerator.new {|y| # cols is initialized in Enumerator.new. cols = 0 words.slice_before { |w| cols += 1 if cols != 0 cols += w.length if maxwidth < cols cols = w.length true else false end }.each {|ws| y.yield ws } } end text = (1..20).to_a.join(" ") enum = wordwrap(text.split(/\s+/), 10) puts "-"*10 enum.each { |ws| puts ws.join(" ") } # first enumeration. puts "-"*10 enum.each { |ws| puts ws.join(" ") } # second enumeration generates same result as the first. puts "-"*10 #=> ---------- # 1 2 3 4 5 # 6 7 8 9 10 # 11 12 13 # 14 15 16 # 17 18 19 # 20 # ---------- # 1 2 3 4 5 # 6 7 8 9 10 # 11 12 13 # 14 15 16 # 17 18 19 # 20 # ----------
mbox contains series of mails which start with Unix From line. So each mail can be extracted by slice before Unix From line.
# parse mbox open("mbox") { |f| f.slice_before { |line| line.start_with? "From " }.each { |mail| unix_from = mail.shift i = mail.index("\n") header = mail[0...i] body = mail[(i+1)..-1] body.pop if body.last == "\n" fields = header.slice_before { |line| !" \t".include?(line[0]) }.to_a p unix_from pp fields pp body } } # split mails in mbox (slice before Unix From line after an empty line) open("mbox") { |f| emp = true f.slice_before { |line| prevemp = emp emp = line == "\n" prevemp && line.start_with?("From ") }.each { |mail| mail.pop if mail.last == "\n" pp mail } }
Creates an enumerator for each chunked elements. The ends of chunks are defined by pattern and the block.
If pattern === elt returns true or the block returns true for the element, the element is end of a chunk.
The === and block is called from the first element to the last element of enum.
The result enumerator yields the chunked elements as an array. So each method can be called as follows:
enum.slice_after(pattern).each { |ary| ... }
enum.slice_after { |elt| bool }.each { |ary| ... }
Other methods of the Enumerator class and Enumerable module, such as map, etc., are also usable.
For example, continuation lines (lines end with backslash) can be concatenated as follows:
lines = ["foo\n", "bar\\\n", "baz\n", "\n", "qux\n"] e = lines.slice_after(/(?<!\\)\n\z/) p e.to_a #=> [["foo\n"], ["bar\\\n", "baz\n"], ["\n"], ["qux\n"]] p e.map {|ll| ll[0...-1].map {|l| l.sub(/\\\n\z/, "") }.join + ll.last } #=>["foo\n", "barbaz\n", "\n", "qux\n"]
Creates an enumerator for each chunked elements. The beginnings of chunks are defined by the block.
This method split each chunk using adjacent elements, elt_before and elt_after, in the receiver enumerator. This method split chunks between elt_before and elt_after where the block returns true.
The block is called the length of the receiver enumerator minus one.
The result enumerator yields the chunked elements as an array. So each method can be called as follows:
enum.slice_when { |elt_before, elt_after| bool }.each { |ary| ... }
Other methods of the Enumerator class and Enumerable module, such as to_a, map, etc., are also usable.
For example, one-by-one increasing subsequence can be chunked as follows:
a = [1,2,4,9,10,11,12,15,16,19,20,21] b = a.slice_when {|i, j| i+1 != j } p b.to_a #=> [[1, 2], [4], [9, 10, 11, 12], [15, 16], [19, 20, 21]] c = b.map {|a| a.length < 3 ? a : "#{a.first}-#{a.last}" } p c #=> [[1, 2], [4], "9-12", [15, 16], "19-21"] d = c.join(",") p d #=> "1,2,4,9-12,15,16,19-21"
Near elements (threshold: 6) in sorted array can be chunked as follows:
a = [3, 11, 14, 25, 28, 29, 29, 41, 55, 57] p a.slice_when {|i, j| 6 < j - i }.to_a #=> [[3], [11, 14], [25, 28, 29, 29], [41], [55, 57]]
Increasing (non-decreasing) subsequence can be chunked as follows:
a = [0, 9, 2, 2, 3, 2, 7, 5, 9, 5] p a.slice_when {|i, j| i > j }.to_a #=> [[0, 9], [2, 2, 3], [2, 7], [5, 9], [5]]
Adjacent evens and odds can be chunked as follows: (Enumerable#chunk is another way to do it.)
a = [7, 5, 9, 2, 0, 7, 9, 4, 2, 0] p a.slice_when {|i, j| i.even? != j.even? }.to_a #=> [[7, 5, 9], [2, 0], [7, 9], [4, 2, 0]]
Paragraphs (non-empty lines with trailing empty lines) can be chunked as follows: (See Enumerable#chunk to ignore empty lines.)
lines = ["foo\n", "bar\n", "\n", "baz\n", "qux\n"] p lines.slice_when {|l1, l2| /\A\s*\z/ =~ l1 && /\S/ =~ l2 }.to_a #=> [["foo\n", "bar\n", "\n"], ["baz\n", "qux\n"]]
Enumerable#chunk_while does the same, except splitting when the block returns false instead of true.
Like Enumerable#slice_before, but chains operation to be lazy-evaluated.
Like Enumerable#slice_after, but chains operation to be lazy-evaluated.
Like Enumerable#slice_when, but chains operation to be lazy-evaluated.
define UnicodeNormalize module here so that we don’t have to look it up
Potentially raised when a specification is validated.
Enumerator::ArithmeticSequence is a subclass of Enumerator, that is a representation of sequences of numbers with common difference. Instances of this class can be generated by the Range#step and Numeric#step methods.