Opens the file, optionally seeks to the given offset, writes string, then returns the length written. write ensures the file is closed before returning. If offset is not given in write mode, the file is truncated. Otherwise, it is not truncated.
IO.write("testfile", "0123456789", 20) #=> 10 # File could contain: "This is line one\nThi0123456789two\nThis is line three\nAnd so on...\n" IO.write("testfile", "0123456789") #=> 10 # File would now read: "0123456789"
If the last argument is a hash, it specifies options for the internal open(). It accepts the following keys:
string or encoding
Specifies the encoding of the read string. See Encoding.aliases for possible encodings.
string or integer
Specifies the mode argument for open(). It must start with “w”, “a”, or “r+”, otherwise it will cause an error. See IO.new for the list of possible modes.
integer
Specifies the perm argument for open().
array
Specifies arguments for open() as an array. This key can not be used in combination with other keys.
Same as IO.write except opening the file in binary mode and ASCII-8BIT encoding ("wb:ASCII-8BIT").
Writes the given object(s) to ios. Returns nil.
The stream must be opened for writing. Each given object that isn’t a string will be converted by calling its to_s method. When called without arguments, prints the contents of $_.
If the output field separator ($,) is not nil, it is inserted between objects. If the output record separator ($\) is not nil, it is appended to the output.
$stdout.print("This is ", 100, " percent.\n")
produces:
This is 100 percent.
Formats and writes to ios, converting parameters under control of the format string. See Kernel#sprintf for details.
Writes the given string to ios using a low-level write. Returns the number of bytes written. Do not mix with other methods that write to ios or you may get unpredictable results. Raises SystemCallError on error.
f = File.new("out", "w") f.syswrite("ABCDEF") #=> 6
Writes the given string to ios at offset using pwrite() system call. This is advantageous to combining IO#seek and IO#write in that it is atomic, allowing multiple threads/process to share the same IO object for reading the file at various locations. This bypasses any userspace buffering of the IO layer. Returns the number of bytes written. Raises SystemCallError on error and NotImplementedError if platform does not implement the system call.
File.open("out", "w") do |f| f.pwrite("ABCDEF", 3) #=> 6 end File.read("out") #=> "\u0000\u0000\u0000ABCDEF"
Writes the given strings to ios. The stream must be opened for writing. Arguments that are not a string will be converted to a string using to_s. Returns the number of bytes written in total.
count = $stdout.write("This is", " a test\n") puts "That was #{count} bytes of data"
produces:
This is a test That was 15 bytes of data
Returns an array containing the items in the range.
(1..7).to_a #=> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] (1..).to_a #=> RangeError: cannot convert endless range to an array
Returns the original string of the pattern.
/ab+c/ix.source #=> "ab+c"
Note that escape sequences are retained as is.
/\x20\+/.source #=> "\\x20\\+"
Callback invoked whenever a subclass of the current class is created.
Example:
class Foo def self.inherited(subclass) puts "New subclass: #{subclass}" end end class Bar < Foo end class Baz < Bar end
produces:
New subclass: Bar New subclass: Baz
Return the entries (files and subdirectories) in the directory, each as a Pathname object.
The results contains just the names in the directory, without any trailing slashes or recursive look-up.
pp Pathname.new('/usr/local').entries #=> [#<Pathname:share>, # #<Pathname:lib>, # #<Pathname:..>, # #<Pathname:include>, # #<Pathname:etc>, # #<Pathname:bin>, # #<Pathname:man>, # #<Pathname:games>, # #<Pathname:.>, # #<Pathname:sbin>, # #<Pathname:src>]
The result may contain the current directory #<Pathname:.> and the parent directory #<Pathname:..>.
If you don’t want . and .. and want directories, consider Pathname#children.
Obtains address information for nodename:servname.
Note that Addrinfo.getaddrinfo provides the same functionality in an object oriented style.
family should be an address family such as: :INET, :INET6, etc.
socktype should be a socket type such as: :STREAM, :DGRAM, :RAW, etc.
protocol should be a protocol defined in the family, and defaults to 0 for the family.
flags should be bitwise OR of Socket::AI_* constants.
Socket.getaddrinfo("www.ruby-lang.org", "http", nil, :STREAM) #=> [["AF_INET", 80, "carbon.ruby-lang.org", "221.186.184.68", 2, 1, 6]] # PF_INET/SOCK_STREAM/IPPROTO_TCP Socket.getaddrinfo("localhost", nil) #=> [["AF_INET", 0, "localhost", "127.0.0.1", 2, 1, 6], # PF_INET/SOCK_STREAM/IPPROTO_TCP # ["AF_INET", 0, "localhost", "127.0.0.1", 2, 2, 17], # PF_INET/SOCK_DGRAM/IPPROTO_UDP # ["AF_INET", 0, "localhost", "127.0.0.1", 2, 3, 0]] # PF_INET/SOCK_RAW/IPPROTO_IP
reverse_lookup directs the form of the third element, and has to be one of below. If reverse_lookup is omitted, the default value is nil.
+true+, +:hostname+: hostname is obtained from numeric address using reverse lookup, which may take a time. +false+, +:numeric+: hostname is same as numeric address. +nil+: obey to the current +do_not_reverse_lookup+ flag.
If Addrinfo object is preferred, use Addrinfo.getaddrinfo.
returns a list of addrinfo objects as an array.
This method converts nodename (hostname) and service (port) to addrinfo. Since the conversion is not unique, the result is a list of addrinfo objects.
nodename or service can be nil if no conversion intended.
family, socktype and protocol are hint for preferred protocol. If the result will be used for a socket with SOCK_STREAM, SOCK_STREAM should be specified as socktype. If so, Addrinfo.getaddrinfo returns addrinfo list appropriate for SOCK_STREAM. If they are omitted or nil is given, the result is not restricted.
Similarly, PF_INET6 as family restricts for IPv6.
flags should be bitwise OR of Socket::AI_??? constants such as follows. Note that the exact list of the constants depends on OS.
AI_PASSIVE Get address to use with bind() AI_CANONNAME Fill in the canonical name AI_NUMERICHOST Prevent host name resolution AI_NUMERICSERV Prevent service name resolution AI_V4MAPPED Accept IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses AI_ALL Allow all addresses AI_ADDRCONFIG Accept only if any address is assigned
Note that socktype should be specified whenever application knows the usage of the address. Some platform causes an error when socktype is omitted and servname is specified as an integer because some port numbers, 512 for example, are ambiguous without socktype.
Addrinfo.getaddrinfo("www.kame.net", 80, nil, :STREAM) #=> [#<Addrinfo: 203.178.141.194:80 TCP (www.kame.net)>, # #<Addrinfo: [2001:200:dff:fff1:216:3eff:feb1:44d7]:80 TCP (www.kame.net)>]
Appends the given string to the underlying buffer string. The stream must be opened for writing. If the argument is not a string, it will be converted to a string using to_s. Returns the number of bytes written. See IO#write.
Returns the string being scanned.
Changes the string being scanned to str and resets the scanner. Returns str.
Returns the subgroups in the most recent match (not including the full match). If nothing was priorly matched, it returns nil.
s = StringScanner.new("Fri Dec 12 1975 14:39") s.scan(/(\w+) (\w+) (\d+) /) # -> "Fri Dec 12 " s.captures # -> ["Fri", "Dec", "12"] s.scan(/(\w+) (\w+) (\d+) /) # -> nil s.captures # -> nil
Returns help string of OLE method. If the help string is not found, then the method returns nil.
tobj = WIN32OLE_TYPE.new('Microsoft Internet Controls', 'IWebBrowser') method = WIN32OLE_METHOD.new(tobj, 'Navigate') puts method.helpstring # => Navigates to a URL or file.
Returns help string.
tobj = WIN32OLE_TYPE.new('Microsoft Internet Controls', 'IWebBrowser') puts tobj.helpstring # => Web Browser interface