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Returns a copy of self with leading whitespace removed; see Whitespace in Strings:

whitespace = "\x00\t\n\v\f\r "
s = whitespace + 'abc' + whitespace
s        # => "\u0000\t\n\v\f\r abc\u0000\t\n\v\f\r "
s.lstrip # => "abc\u0000\t\n\v\f\r "

Related: String#rstrip, String#strip.

Returns a copy of the receiver with trailing whitespace removed; see Whitespace in Strings:

whitespace = "\x00\t\n\v\f\r "
s = whitespace + 'abc' + whitespace
s        # => "\u0000\t\n\v\f\r abc\u0000\t\n\v\f\r "
s.rstrip # => "\u0000\t\n\v\f\r abc"

Related: String#lstrip, String#strip.

Like String#lstrip, except that any modifications are made in self; returns self if any modification are made, nil otherwise.

Related: String#rstrip!, String#strip!.

Like String#rstrip, except that any modifications are made in self; returns self if any modification are made, nil otherwise.

Related: String#lstrip!, String#strip!.

Returns underlying string:

StringIO.open('foo') do |strio|
  p strio.string
  strio.string = 'bar'
  p strio.string
end

Output:

"foo"
"bar"

Related: StringIO#string= (assigns the underlying string).

Assigns the underlying string as other_string, and sets position to zero; returns other_string:

StringIO.open('foo') do |strio|
  p strio.string
  strio.string = 'bar'
  p strio.string
end

Output:

"foo"
"bar"

Related: StringIO#string (returns the underlying string).

Returns the string being scanned.

Changes the string being scanned to str and resets the scanner. Returns str.

Returns the target string if it was frozen; otherwise, returns a frozen copy of the target string:

m = /(.)(.)(\d+)(\d)/.match("THX1138.")
# => #<MatchData "HX1138" 1:"H" 2:"X" 3:"113" 4:"8">
m.string # => "THX1138."

Returns a string converted from object.

Tries to convert object to a string using to_str first and to_s second:

String([0, 1, 2])        # => "[0, 1, 2]"
String(0..5)             # => "0..5"
String({foo: 0, bar: 1}) # => "{:foo=>0, :bar=>1}"

Raises TypeError if object cannot be converted to a string.

Returns a string containing the IP address representation in canonical form.

Format and print out counters as a String. This returns a non-empty content only when --yjit-stats is enabled.

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

Creates a new string of the given length and yields a zero-copy IO::Buffer instance to the block which uses the string as a source. The block is expected to write to the buffer and the string will be returned.

IO::Buffer.string(4) do |buffer|
  buffer.set_string("Ruby")
end
# => "Ruby"

Create a new InstanceVariableAndWriteNode node

Create a new InstanceVariableOperatorWriteNode node

Create a new InstanceVariableOrWriteNode node

Create a new InstanceVariableWriteNode node

Create a new InterpolatedStringNode node

Create a new InterpolatedXStringNode node

Create a new StringNode node

Create a new XStringNode node