Prepends the given objects to self:
a = [:foo, 'bar', 2] a.unshift(:bam, :bat) # => [:bam, :bat, :foo, "bar", 2]
Array#prepend is an alias for Array#unshift.
Returns a count of specified elements.
With no argument and no block, returns the count of all elements:
[0, 1, 2].count # => 3 [].count # => 0
With argument obj, returns the count of elements eql? to obj:
[0, 1, 2, 0].count(0) # => 2 [0, 1, 2].count(3) # => 0
With no argument and a block given, calls the block with each element; returns the count of elements for which the block returns a truthy value:
[0, 1, 2, 3].count {|element| element > 1} # => 2
With argument obj and a block given, issues a warning, ignores the block, and returns the count of elements eql? to obj:
Returns object. This method is deprecated and will be removed in Ruby 3.2.
Returns object. This method is deprecated and will be removed in Ruby 3.2.
Returns false. This method is deprecated and will be removed in Ruby 3.2.
Returns int truncated (toward zero) to a precision of ndigits decimal digits (default: 0).
When the precision is negative, the returned value is an integer with at least ndigits.abs trailing zeros.
Returns self when ndigits is zero or positive.
1.truncate #=> 1 1.truncate(2) #=> 1 18.truncate(-1) #=> 10 (-18).truncate(-1) #=> -10
Returns int rounded to the nearest value with a precision of ndigits decimal digits (default: 0).
When the precision is negative, the returned value is an integer with at least ndigits.abs trailing zeros.
Returns self when ndigits is zero or positive.
1.round #=> 1 1.round(2) #=> 1 15.round(-1) #=> 20 (-15).round(-1) #=> -20
The optional half keyword argument is available similar to Float#round.
25.round(-1, half: :up) #=> 30 25.round(-1, half: :down) #=> 20 25.round(-1, half: :even) #=> 20 35.round(-1, half: :up) #=> 40 35.round(-1, half: :down) #=> 30 35.round(-1, half: :even) #=> 40 (-25).round(-1, half: :up) #=> -30 (-25).round(-1, half: :down) #=> -20 (-25).round(-1, half: :even) #=> -20
Returns the absolute part of its polar form.
Complex(-1).abs #=> 1 Complex(3.0, -4.0).abs #=> 5.0
Returns true if cmp‘s real and imaginary parts are both finite numbers, otherwise returns false.
Returns 1 if cmp‘s real or imaginary part is an infinite number, otherwise returns nil.
For example: (1+1i).infinite? #=> nil (Float::INFINITY + 1i).infinite? #=> 1
Only the object nil responds true to nil?.
Returns the absolute value of num.
12.abs #=> 12 (-34.56).abs #=> 34.56 -34.56.abs #=> 34.56
Numeric#magnitude is an alias for Numeric#abs.
Returns true if num is a finite number, otherwise returns false.
Returns nil, -1, or 1 depending on whether the value is finite, -Infinity, or +Infinity.
Returns num rounded to the nearest value with a precision of ndigits decimal digits (default: 0).
Numeric implements this by converting its value to a Float and invoking Float#round.
Returns num truncated (toward zero) to a precision of ndigits decimal digits (default: 0).
Numeric implements this by converting its value to a Float and invoking Float#truncate.
Decodes str (which may contain binary data) according to the format string, returning an array of each value extracted. The format string consists of a sequence of single-character directives, summarized in the table at the end of this entry. Each directive may be followed by a number, indicating the number of times to repeat with this directive. An asterisk (“*”) will use up all remaining elements. The directives sSiIlL may each be followed by an underscore (“_”) or exclamation mark (“!”) to use the underlying platform’s native size for the specified type; otherwise, it uses a platform-independent consistent size. Spaces are ignored in the format string. See also String#unpack1, Array#pack.
"abc \0\0abc \0\0".unpack('A6Z6') #=> ["abc", "abc "] "abc \0\0".unpack('a3a3') #=> ["abc", " \000\000"] "abc \0abc \0".unpack('Z*Z*') #=> ["abc ", "abc "] "aa".unpack('b8B8') #=> ["10000110", "01100001"] "aaa".unpack('h2H2c') #=> ["16", "61", 97] "\xfe\xff\xfe\xff".unpack('sS') #=> [-2, 65534] "now=20is".unpack('M*') #=> ["now is"] "whole".unpack('xax2aX2aX1aX2a') #=> ["h", "e", "l", "l", "o"]
This table summarizes the various formats and the Ruby classes returned by each.
Integer | |
Directive | Returns | Meaning
------------------------------------------------------------------
C | Integer | 8-bit unsigned (unsigned char)
S | Integer | 16-bit unsigned, native endian (uint16_t)
L | Integer | 32-bit unsigned, native endian (uint32_t)
Q | Integer | 64-bit unsigned, native endian (uint64_t)
J | Integer | pointer width unsigned, native endian (uintptr_t)
| |
c | Integer | 8-bit signed (signed char)
s | Integer | 16-bit signed, native endian (int16_t)
l | Integer | 32-bit signed, native endian (int32_t)
q | Integer | 64-bit signed, native endian (int64_t)
j | Integer | pointer width signed, native endian (intptr_t)
| |
S_ S! | Integer | unsigned short, native endian
I I_ I! | Integer | unsigned int, native endian
L_ L! | Integer | unsigned long, native endian
Q_ Q! | Integer | unsigned long long, native endian (ArgumentError
| | if the platform has no long long type.)
J! | Integer | uintptr_t, native endian (same with J)
| |
s_ s! | Integer | signed short, native endian
i i_ i! | Integer | signed int, native endian
l_ l! | Integer | signed long, native endian
q_ q! | Integer | signed long long, native endian (ArgumentError
| | if the platform has no long long type.)
j! | Integer | intptr_t, native endian (same with j)
| |
S> s> S!> s!> | Integer | same as the directives without ">" except
L> l> L!> l!> | | big endian
I!> i!> | |
Q> q> Q!> q!> | | "S>" is same as "n"
J> j> J!> j!> | | "L>" is same as "N"
| |
S< s< S!< s!< | Integer | same as the directives without "<" except
L< l< L!< l!< | | little endian
I!< i!< | |
Q< q< Q!< q!< | | "S<" is same as "v"
J< j< J!< j!< | | "L<" is same as "V"
| |
n | Integer | 16-bit unsigned, network (big-endian) byte order
N | Integer | 32-bit unsigned, network (big-endian) byte order
v | Integer | 16-bit unsigned, VAX (little-endian) byte order
V | Integer | 32-bit unsigned, VAX (little-endian) byte order
| |
U | Integer | UTF-8 character
w | Integer | BER-compressed integer (see Array#pack)
Float | |
Directive | Returns | Meaning
-----------------------------------------------------------------
D d | Float | double-precision, native format
F f | Float | single-precision, native format
E | Float | double-precision, little-endian byte order
e | Float | single-precision, little-endian byte order
G | Float | double-precision, network (big-endian) byte order
g | Float | single-precision, network (big-endian) byte order
String | |
Directive | Returns | Meaning
-----------------------------------------------------------------
A | String | arbitrary binary string (remove trailing nulls and ASCII spaces)
a | String | arbitrary binary string
Z | String | null-terminated string
B | String | bit string (MSB first)
b | String | bit string (LSB first)
H | String | hex string (high nibble first)
h | String | hex string (low nibble first)
u | String | UU-encoded string
M | String | quoted-printable, MIME encoding (see RFC2045)
m | String | base64 encoded string (RFC 2045) (default)
| | base64 encoded string (RFC 4648) if followed by 0
P | String | pointer to a structure (fixed-length string)
p | String | pointer to a null-terminated string
Misc. | |
Directive | Returns | Meaning
-----------------------------------------------------------------
@ | --- | skip to the offset given by the length argument
X | --- | skip backward one byte
x | --- | skip forward one byte
HISTORY
J, J! j, and j! are available since Ruby 2.3.
Q_, Q!, q_, and q! are available since Ruby 2.1.
I!<, i!<, I!>, and i!> are available since Ruby 1.9.3.
Decodes str (which may contain binary data) according to the format string, returning the first value extracted. See also String#unpack, Array#pack.
Contrast with String#unpack:
"abc \0\0abc \0\0".unpack('A6Z6') #=> ["abc", "abc "] "abc \0\0abc \0\0".unpack1('A6Z6') #=> "abc"
In that case data would be lost but often it’s the case that the array only holds one value, especially when unpacking binary data. For instance:
“xffx00x00x00”.unpack(“l”) #=> [255] “xffx00x00x00”.unpack1(“l”) #=> 255
Thus unpack1 is convenient, makes clear the intention and signals the expected return value to those reading the code.
Returns an unescaped version of the string. This does the inverse of String#dump.
"\"hello \\n ''\"".undump #=> "hello \n ''"
Each other_str parameter defines a set of characters to count. The intersection of these sets defines the characters to count in str. Any other_str that starts with a caret ^ is negated. The sequence c1-c2 means all characters between c1 and c2. The backslash character \ can be used to escape ^ or - and is otherwise ignored unless it appears at the end of a sequence or the end of a other_str.
a = "hello world" a.count "lo" #=> 5 a.count "lo", "o" #=> 2 a.count "hello", "^l" #=> 4 a.count "ej-m" #=> 4 "hello^world".count "\\^aeiou" #=> 4 "hello-world".count "a\\-eo" #=> 4 c = "hello world\\r\\n" c.count "\\" #=> 2 c.count "\\A" #=> 0 c.count "X-\\w" #=> 3
Returns the absolute value of float.
(-34.56).abs #=> 34.56 -34.56.abs #=> 34.56 34.56.abs #=> 34.56
Float#magnitude is an alias for Float#abs.
Returns float rounded to the nearest value with a precision of ndigits decimal digits (default: 0).
When the precision is negative, the returned value is an integer with at least ndigits.abs trailing zeros.
Returns a floating point number when ndigits is positive, otherwise returns an integer.
1.4.round #=> 1 1.5.round #=> 2 1.6.round #=> 2 (-1.5).round #=> -2 1.234567.round(2) #=> 1.23 1.234567.round(3) #=> 1.235 1.234567.round(4) #=> 1.2346 1.234567.round(5) #=> 1.23457 34567.89.round(-5) #=> 0 34567.89.round(-4) #=> 30000 34567.89.round(-3) #=> 35000 34567.89.round(-2) #=> 34600 34567.89.round(-1) #=> 34570 34567.89.round(0) #=> 34568 34567.89.round(1) #=> 34567.9 34567.89.round(2) #=> 34567.89 34567.89.round(3) #=> 34567.89
If the optional half keyword argument is given, numbers that are half-way between two possible rounded values will be rounded according to the specified tie-breaking mode:
:up or nil: round half away from zero (default)
:down: round half toward zero
:even: round half toward the nearest even number
2.5.round(half: :up) #=> 3 2.5.round(half: :down) #=> 2 2.5.round(half: :even) #=> 2 3.5.round(half: :up) #=> 4 3.5.round(half: :down) #=> 3 3.5.round(half: :even) #=> 4 (-2.5).round(half: :up) #=> -3 (-2.5).round(half: :down) #=> -2 (-2.5).round(half: :even) #=> -2