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String#strip

Returns a copy of the receiver with leading and 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.strip # => "abc"

Related: String#lstrip, String#rstrip.

Gem::YAMLSerializer#strip_comment

No documentation available

String

A String object has an arbitrary sequence of bytes, typically representing text or binary data. A String object may be created using String::new or as literals.

String objects differ from Symbol objects in that Symbol objects are designed to be used as identifiers, instead of text or data.

You can create a String object explicitly with:

You can convert certain objects to Strings with:

Some String methods modify self. Typically, a method whose name ends with ! modifies self and returns self; often, a similarly named method (without the !) returns a new string.

In general, if both bang and non-bang versions of a method exist, the bang method mutates and the non-bang method does not. However, a method without a bang can also mutate, such as String#replace.

Substitution Methods

These methods perform substitutions:

Each of these methods takes:

The examples in this section mostly use the String#sub and String#gsub methods; the principles illustrated apply to all four substitution methods.

Argument pattern

Argument pattern is commonly a regular expression:

s = 'hello'
s.sub(/[aeiou]/, '*') # => "h*llo"
s.gsub(/[aeiou]/, '*') # => "h*ll*"
s.gsub(/[aeiou]/, '')  # => "hll"
s.sub(/ell/, 'al')     # => "halo"
s.gsub(/xyzzy/, '*')   # => "hello"
'THX1138'.gsub(/\d+/, '00') # => "THX00"

When pattern is a string, all its characters are treated as ordinary characters (not as Regexp special characters):

'THX1138'.gsub('\d+', '00') # => "THX1138"

String replacement

If replacement is a string, that string determines the replacing string that is substituted for the matched text.

Each of the examples above uses a simple string as the replacing string.

String replacement may contain back-references to the pattern’s captures:

See Regexp for details.

Note that within the string replacement, a character combination such as $& is treated as ordinary text, not as a special match variable. However, you may refer to some special match variables using these combinations:

See Regexp for details.

Note that \\ is interpreted as an escape, i.e., a single backslash.

Note also that a string literal consumes backslashes. See string literal for details about string literals.

A back-reference is typically preceded by an additional backslash. For example, if you want to write a back-reference \& in replacement with a double-quoted string literal, you need to write "..\\&..".

If you want to write a non-back-reference string \& in replacement, you need to first escape the backslash to prevent this method from interpreting it as a back-reference, and then you need to escape the backslashes again to prevent a string literal from consuming them: "..\\\\&..".

You may want to use the block form to avoid excessive backslashes.

Hash replacement

If the argument replacement is a hash, and pattern matches one of its keys, the replacing string is the value for that key:

h = {'foo' => 'bar', 'baz' => 'bat'}
'food'.sub('foo', h) # => "bard"

Note that a symbol key does not match:

h = {foo: 'bar', baz: 'bat'}
'food'.sub('foo', h) # => "d"

Block

In the block form, the current match string is passed to the block; the block’s return value becomes the replacing string:

s = '@'
'1234'.gsub(/\d/) { |match| s.succ! } # => "ABCD"

Special match variables such as $1, $2, $`, $&, and $' are set appropriately.

Whitespace in Strings

In the class String, whitespace is defined as a contiguous sequence of characters consisting of any mixture of the following:

Whitespace is relevant for the following methods:

String Slices

A slice of a string is a substring selected by certain criteria.

These instance methods utilize slicing:

Each of the above methods takes arguments that determine the slice to be copied or replaced.

The arguments have several forms. For a string string, the forms are:

string[index]

When a non-negative integer argument index is given, the slice is the 1-character substring found in self at character offset index:

'bar'[0]      # => "b"
'bar'[2]      # => "r"
'bar'[20]     # => nil
'тест'[2]     # => "с"
'こんにちは'[4] # => "は"

When a negative integer index is given, the slice begins at the offset given by counting backward from the end of self:

'bar'[-3]      # => "b"
'bar'[-1]      # => "r"
'bar'[-20]     # => nil

string[start, length]

When non-negative integer arguments start and length are given, the slice begins at character offset start, if it exists, and continues for length characters, if available:

'foo'[0, 2]      # => "fo"
'тест'[1, 2]     # => "ес"
'こんにちは'[2, 2] # => "にち"
# Zero length.
'foo'[2, 0]      # => ""
# Length not entirely available.
'foo'[1, 200]    # => "oo"
# Start out of range.
'foo'[4, 2]      # => nil

Special case: if start equals the length of self, the slice is a new empty string:

'foo'[3, 2]    # => ""
'foo'[3, 200]  # => ""

When a negative start and non-negative length are given, the slice begins by counting backward from the end of self, and continues for length characters, if available:

'foo'[-2, 2]     # => "oo"
'foo'[-2, 200]   # => "oo"
# Start out of range.
'foo'[-4, 2]     # => nil

When a negative length is given, there is no slice:

'foo'[1, -1]   # => nil
'foo'[-2, -1]  # => nil

string[range]

When a Range argument range is given, it creates a substring of string using the indices in range. The slice is then determined as above:

'foo'[0..1]     # => "fo"
'foo'[0, 2]     # => "fo"

'foo'[2...2]    # => ""
'foo'[2, 0]     # => ""

'foo'[1..200]   # => "oo"
'foo'[1, 200]   # => "oo"

'foo'[4..5]     # => nil
'foo'[4, 2]     # => nil

'foo'[-4..-3]   # => nil
'foo'[-4, 2]    # => nil

'foo'[3..4]     # => ""
'foo'[3, 2]     # => ""

'foo'[-2..-1]   # => "oo"
'foo'[-2, 2]    # => "oo"

'foo'[-2..197]  # => "oo"
'foo'[-2, 200]  # => "oo"

string[regexp, capture = 0]

When the Regexp argument regexp is given, and the capture argument is 0, the slice is the first matching substring found in self:

'foo'[/o/]                # => "o"
'foo'[/x/]                # => nil
s = 'hello there'
s[/[aeiou](.)\1/]        # => "ell"
s[/[aeiou](.)\1/, 0]     # => "ell"

If the argument capture is provided and not 0, it should be either a capture group index (integer) or a capture group name (String or Symbol); the slice is the specified capture (see Groups at Regexp and Captures):

s = 'hello there'
s[/[aeiou](.)\1/, 1] # => "l"
s[/(?<vowel>[aeiou])(?<non_vowel>[^aeiou])/, "non_vowel"] # => "l"
s[/(?<vowel>[aeiou])(?<non_vowel>[^aeiou])/, :vowel]      # => "e"

If an invalid capture group index is given, there is no slice. If an invalid capture group name is given, IndexError is raised.

string[substring]

When the single String argument substring is given, it returns the substring from self if found, otherwise nil:

'foo'['oo'] # => "oo"
'foo'['xx'] # => nil

What’s Here

First, what’s elsewhere. Class String:

Here, class String provides methods that are useful for:

Creating a String

Freezing/Unfreezing

Querying

Counts

Substrings

Encodings

Other

Comparing

Modifying

Each of these methods modifies self.

Insertion

Substitution

Casing

Encoding

Deletion

Converting to New String

Each of these methods returns a new String based on self, often just a modified copy of self.

Extension

Encoding

Substitution

Casing

Deletion

Duplication

Converting to Non-String

Each of these methods converts the contents of self to a non-String.

Characters, Bytes, and Clusters

Splitting

Matching

Numerics

Strings and Symbols

Iterating

StringIO

IO streams for strings, with access similar to IO; see IO.

About the Examples

Examples on this page assume that StringIO has been required:

require 'stringio'

StringScanner

No documentation available

ScriptError

ScriptError is the superclass for errors raised when a script can not be executed because of a LoadError, NotImplementedError or a SyntaxError. Note these type of ScriptErrors are not StandardError and will not be rescued unless it is specified explicitly (or its ancestor Exception).

OpenStruct

No documentation available

Struct

Class Struct provides a convenient way to create a simple class that can store and fetch values.

This example creates a subclass of Struct, Struct::Customer; the first argument, a string, is the name of the subclass; the other arguments, symbols, determine the members of the new subclass.

Customer = Struct.new('Customer', :name, :address, :zip)
Customer.name       # => "Struct::Customer"
Customer.class      # => Class
Customer.superclass # => Struct

Corresponding to each member are two methods, a writer and a reader, that store and fetch values:

methods = Customer.instance_methods false
methods # => [:zip, :address=, :zip=, :address, :name, :name=]

An instance of the subclass may be created, and its members assigned values, via method ::new:

joe = Customer.new("Joe Smith", "123 Maple, Anytown NC", 12345)
joe # => #<struct Struct::Customer name="Joe Smith", address="123 Maple, Anytown NC", zip=12345>

The member values may be managed thus:

joe.name    # => "Joe Smith"
joe.name = 'Joseph Smith'
joe.name    # => "Joseph Smith"

And thus; note that member name may be expressed as either a string or a symbol:

joe[:name]  # => "Joseph Smith"
joe[:name] = 'Joseph Smith, Jr.'
joe['name'] # => "Joseph Smith, Jr."

See Struct::new.

What’s Here

First, what’s elsewhere. Class Struct:

See also Data, which is a somewhat similar, but stricter concept for defining immutable value objects.

Here, class Struct provides methods that are useful for:

Methods for Creating a Struct Subclass

Methods for Querying

Methods for Comparing

Methods for Fetching

Methods for Assigning

Methods for Iterating

Methods for Converting

Ripper

Ripper is a Ruby script parser.

You can get information from the parser with event-based style. Information such as abstract syntax trees or simple lexical analysis of the Ruby program.

Usage

Ripper provides an easy interface for parsing your program into a symbolic expression tree (or S-expression).

Understanding the output of the parser may come as a challenge, it’s recommended you use PP to format the output for legibility.

require 'ripper'
require 'pp'

pp Ripper.sexp('def hello(world) "Hello, #{world}!"; end')
  #=> [:program,
       [[:def,
         [:@ident, "hello", [1, 4]],
         [:paren,
          [:params, [[:@ident, "world", [1, 10]]], nil, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil]],
         [:bodystmt,
          [[:string_literal,
            [:string_content,
             [:@tstring_content, "Hello, ", [1, 18]],
             [:string_embexpr, [[:var_ref, [:@ident, "world", [1, 27]]]]],
             [:@tstring_content, "!", [1, 33]]]]],
          nil,
          nil,
          nil]]]]

You can see in the example above, the expression starts with :program.

From here, a method definition at :def, followed by the method’s identifier :@ident. After the method’s identifier comes the parentheses :paren and the method parameters under :params.

Next is the method body, starting at :bodystmt (stmt meaning statement), which contains the full definition of the method.

In our case, we’re simply returning a String, so next we have the :string_literal expression.

Within our :string_literal you’ll notice two @tstring_content, this is the literal part for Hello, and !. Between the two @tstring_content statements is a :string_embexpr, where embexpr is an embedded expression. Our expression consists of a local variable, or var_ref, with the identifier (@ident) of world.

Resources

Requirements

License

Ruby License.

SystemStackError

Raised in case of a stack overflow.

def me_myself_and_i
  me_myself_and_i
end
me_myself_and_i

raises the exception:

SystemStackError: stack level too deep

Prism::InstanceVariableAndWriteNode

No documentation available

Prism::InstanceVariableOrWriteNode

No documentation available

Prism::InstanceVariableOperatorWriteNode

No documentation available

Prism::StringQuery

Here we are going to patch StringQuery to put in the class-level methods so that it can maintain a consistent interface

Query methods that allow categorizing strings based on their context for where they could be valid in a Ruby syntax tree.

Prism::InterpolatedStringNode

No documentation available

Prism::InterpolatedXStringNode

No documentation available

Prism::StringNode

No documentation available

Prism::XStringNode

No documentation available

SyntaxSuggest::MiniStringIO

Mini String IO [Private]

Acts like a StringIO with reduced API, but without having to require that class.

The original codebase emitted directly to $stderr, but now SyntaxError#detailed_message needs a string output. To accomplish that we kept the original print infrastructure in place and added this class to accumulate the print output into a string.

RubyVM::AbstractSyntaxTree

AbstractSyntaxTree provides methods to parse Ruby code into abstract syntax trees. The nodes in the tree are instances of RubyVM::AbstractSyntaxTree::Node.

This module is MRI specific as it exposes implementation details of the MRI abstract syntax tree.

This module is experimental and its API is not stable, therefore it might change without notice. As examples, the order of children nodes is not guaranteed, the number of children nodes might change, there is no way to access children nodes by name, etc.

If you are looking for a stable API or an API working under multiple Ruby implementations, consider using the prism gem, which is the official Ruby API to parse Ruby code.

Psych::Stream

Psych::Stream is a streaming YAML emitter. It will not buffer your YAML, but send it straight to an IO.

Here is an example use:

stream = Psych::Stream.new($stdout)
stream.start
stream.push({:foo => 'bar'})
stream.finish

YAML will be immediately emitted to $stdout with no buffering.

Psych::Stream#start will take a block and ensure that Psych::Stream#finish is called, so you can do this form:

stream = Psych::Stream.new($stdout)
stream.start do |em|
  em.push(:foo => 'bar')
end

Socket::HostnameResolutionStore

No documentation available

Win32::Registry

No documentation available

Zlib::StreamEnd

Subclass of Zlib::Error

When zlib returns a Z_STREAM_END is return if the end of the compressed data has been reached and all uncompressed out put has been produced.

Zlib::StreamError

Subclass of Zlib::Error

When zlib returns a Z_STREAM_ERROR, usually if the stream state was inconsistent.

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