Element Assignment—Replaces some or all of the content of str. The portion of the string affected is determined using the same criteria as String#[]. If the replacement string is not the same length as the text it is replacing, the string will be adjusted accordingly. If the regular expression or string is used as the index doesn’t match a position in the string, IndexError is raised. If the regular expression form is used, the optional second Integer allows you to specify which portion of the match to replace (effectively using the MatchData indexing rules. The forms that take an Integer will raise an IndexError if the value is out of range; the Range form will raise a RangeError, and the Regexp and String will raise an IndexError on negative match.
Returns the string being scanned.
Returns a frozen copy of the string passed in to match.
m = /(.)(.)(\d+)(\d)/.match("THX1138.") m.string #=> "THX1138."
Returns arg as a String.
First tries to call its to_str method, then its to_s method.
String(self) #=> "main" String(self.class) #=> "Object" String(123456) #=> "123456"
Returns a copy of the receiver with leading and trailing whitespace removed.
Whitespace is defined as any of the following characters: null, horizontal tab, line feed, vertical tab, form feed, carriage return, space.
" hello ".strip #=> "hello" "\tgoodbye\r\n".strip #=> "goodbye" "\x00\t\n\v\f\r ".strip #=> "" "hello".strip #=> "hello"
Returns a copy of the receiver with leading whitespace removed. See also String#rstrip and String#strip.
Refer to String#strip for the definition of whitespace.
" hello ".lstrip #=> "hello " "hello".lstrip #=> "hello"
Returns a copy of the receiver with trailing whitespace removed. See also String#lstrip and String#strip.
Refer to String#strip for the definition of whitespace.
" hello ".rstrip #=> " hello" "hello".rstrip #=> "hello"
Removes leading and trailing whitespace from the receiver. Returns the altered receiver, or nil if there was no change.
Refer to String#strip for the definition of whitespace.
" hello ".strip! #=> "hello" "hello".strip! #=> nil
Removes leading whitespace from the receiver. Returns the altered receiver, or nil if no change was made. See also String#rstrip! and String#strip!.
Refer to String#strip for the definition of whitespace.
" hello ".lstrip! #=> "hello " "hello ".lstrip! #=> nil "hello".lstrip! #=> nil
Removes trailing whitespace from the receiver. Returns the altered receiver, or nil if no change was made. See also String#lstrip! and String#strip!.
Refer to String#strip for the definition of whitespace.
" hello ".rstrip! #=> " hello" " hello".rstrip! #=> nil "hello".rstrip! #=> nil
Returns the Integer index of the last occurrence of the given substring, or nil if none found:
'foo'.rindex('f') # => 0 'foo'.rindex('o') # => 2 'foo'.rindex('oo') # => 1 'foo'.rindex('ooo') # => nil
Returns the Integer index of the last match for the given Regexp regexp, or nil if none found:
'foo'.rindex(/f/) # => 0 'foo'.rindex(/o/) # => 2 'foo'.rindex(/oo/) # => 1 'foo'.rindex(/ooo/) # => nil
The last match means starting at the possible last position, not the last of longest matches.
'foo'.rindex(/o+/) # => 2 $~ #=> #<MatchData "o">
To get the last longest match, needs to combine with negative lookbehind.
'foo'.rindex(/(?<!o)o+/) # => 1 $~ #=> #<MatchData "oo">
Or String#index with negative lookforward.
'foo'.index(/o+(?!.*o)/) # => 1 $~ #=> #<MatchData "oo">
Integer argument offset, if given and non-negative, specifies the maximum starting position in the
string to _end_ the search: 'foo'.rindex('o', 0) # => nil 'foo'.rindex('o', 1) # => 1 'foo'.rindex('o', 2) # => 2 'foo'.rindex('o', 3) # => 2
If offset is a negative Integer, the maximum starting position in the string to end the search is the sum of the string’s length and offset:
'foo'.rindex('o', -1) # => 2 'foo'.rindex('o', -2) # => 1 'foo'.rindex('o', -3) # => nil 'foo'.rindex('o', -4) # => nil
Related: String#index.
Returns the Encoding object that represents the encoding of obj.
Inserts the given other_string into self; returns self.
If the Integer index is positive, inserts other_string at offset index:
'foo'.insert(1, 'bar') # => "fbaroo"
If the Integer index is negative, counts backward from the end of self and inserts other_string at offset index+1 (that is, after self[index]):
'foo'.insert(-2, 'bar') # => "fobaro"
Returns the count of characters (not bytes) in self:
"\x80\u3042".length # => 2 "hello".length # => 5
String#size is an alias for String#length.
Related: String#bytesize.
Returns the Integer index of the first occurrence of the given substring, or nil if none found:
'foo'.index('f') # => 0 'foo'.index('o') # => 1 'foo'.index('oo') # => 1 'foo'.index('ooo') # => nil
Returns the Integer index of the first match for the given Regexp regexp, or nil if none found:
'foo'.index(/f/) # => 0 'foo'.index(/o/) # => 1 'foo'.index(/oo/) # => 1 'foo'.index(/ooo/) # => nil
Integer argument offset, if given, specifies the position in the string to begin the search:
'foo'.index('o', 1) # => 1 'foo'.index('o', 2) # => 2 'foo'.index('o', 3) # => nil
If offset is negative, counts backward from the end of self:
'foo'.index('o', -1) # => 2 'foo'.index('o', -2) # => 1 'foo'.index('o', -3) # => 1 'foo'.index('o', -4) # => nil
Related: String#rindex.
Returns a printable version of self, enclosed in double-quotes, and with special characters escaped:
s = "foo\tbar\tbaz\n" # => "foo\tbar\tbaz\n" s.inspect # => "\"foo\\tbar\\tbaz\\n\""
Returns an array of lines in str split using the supplied record separator ($/ by default). This is a shorthand for str.each_line(separator, getline_args).to_a.
If chomp is true, separator will be removed from the end of each line.
"hello\nworld\n".lines #=> ["hello\n", "world\n"] "hello world".lines(' ') #=> ["hello ", " ", "world"] "hello\nworld\n".lines(chomp: true) #=> ["hello", "world"]
If a block is given, which is a deprecated form, works the same as each_line.
Returns an array of the Integer ordinals of the characters in str. This is a shorthand for str.each_codepoint.to_a.
If a block is given, which is a deprecated form, works the same as each_codepoint.
Returns the Symbol corresponding to str, creating the symbol if it did not previously exist. See Symbol#id2name.
"Koala".intern #=> :Koala s = 'cat'.to_sym #=> :cat s == :cat #=> true s = '@cat'.to_sym #=> :@cat s == :@cat #=> true
This can also be used to create symbols that cannot be represented using the :xxx notation.
'cat and dog'.to_sym #=> :"cat and dog"
Returns true if self contains other_string, false otherwise:
s = 'foo' s.include?('f') # => true s.include?('fo') # => true s.include?('food') # => false
If integer is greater than the length of str, returns a new String of length integer with str left justified and padded with padstr; otherwise, returns str.
"hello".ljust(4) #=> "hello" "hello".ljust(20) #=> "hello " "hello".ljust(20, '1234') #=> "hello123412341234123"
If integer is greater than the length of str, returns a new String of length integer with str right justified and padded with padstr; otherwise, returns str.
"hello".rjust(4) #=> "hello" "hello".rjust(20) #=> " hello" "hello".rjust(20, '1234') #=> "123412341234123hello"
Returns a copy of str with the characters in from_str replaced by the corresponding characters in to_str. If to_str is shorter than from_str, it is padded with its last character in order to maintain the correspondence.
"hello".tr('el', 'ip') #=> "hippo" "hello".tr('aeiou', '*') #=> "h*ll*" "hello".tr('aeiou', 'AA*') #=> "hAll*"
Both strings may use the c1-c2 notation to denote ranges of characters, and from_str may start with a ^, which denotes all characters except those listed.
"hello".tr('a-y', 'b-z') #=> "ifmmp" "hello".tr('^aeiou', '*') #=> "*e**o"
The backslash character \ can be used to escape ^ or - and is otherwise ignored unless it appears at the end of a range or the end of the from_str or to_str:
"hello^world".tr("\\^aeiou", "*") #=> "h*ll**w*rld" "hello-world".tr("a\\-eo", "*") #=> "h*ll**w*rld" "hello\r\nworld".tr("\r", "") #=> "hello\nworld" "hello\r\nworld".tr("\\r", "") #=> "hello\r\nwold" "hello\r\nworld".tr("\\\r", "") #=> "hello\nworld" "X['\\b']".tr("X\\", "") #=> "['b']" "X['\\b']".tr("X-\\]", "") #=> "'b'"