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happens?(It will be discussed in next page) 2 Prepared By: Sumanth Krishna. A Ruby on Rails : Strings AString object holds and manipulates an arbitrary sequence of bytes, typically representing characters. String objects may be created usingString::new or as literals. Because of aliasing issues, users of strings should be aware of the methods that modify the contents of aString object. Methods with names ending in ``! modify their receiver. Methods without a ``! return a newString. Ruby deals with strings as well as numerical data. A string may be double-quoted ("...") or single-quoted ( ... ). A double-quoted string allows character escapes by a leading backslash, and the evaluation of embedded expressions using#{}. A single-quoted string does not do this interpreting; what you see is what you get. Examples: If you had done the above mentioned experiments, it is easy to understand the above two points. The difference between the double and single quotes around a string. There are plenty of methods that ruby offers, they come very handy! capitalize: str.capitalize => new_str This method turns the first letter of the string to upper case. "hello".capitalize #=> "Hello" Ruby chomp: str.chomp(separator=$/) => new_str Returns a newString with the given record separator removed from the end ofstr (if present). If$/ has not been changed from the default Ruby record separator, thenchomp also removes carriage return characters (that is it will remove\n,\r, and\r\n). "ruby\r\n".chop #=> "string" "ruby\n\r".chop #=> "string\n" 3 Prepared By: Sumanth Krishna. A Ruby on Rails : Strings In Ruby, strings aremutable. They can expand as needed, without using much time and memory. Ruby stores a string as a sequence of bytes. insert: str.insert(index, other_str) => str Insertsother_str before the character at the givenindex, modifyingstr. Negative indices count from the end of the string, and insertafter the given character. The intent is insert aString so that it starts at the given index. "abcd".insert(0, X ) #=> "Xabcd" "abcd".insert(3, X ) #=> "abcXd" length: str.length => integer Returns the length ofstr. "ruby". length #=> 4 "ruby on rails". length #=> 13 ljust: str.ljust(integer, padstr= ) => new_str Ifint eger is greater than the length ofstr, returns a newString of lengthint eger withstr left justified and padded withpadstr; otherwise, returnsstr. "hello".ljust(4) #=> "hello" "ruby".ljust(20, 1234 ) #=> "ruby1234123412341234" strip: str.lstrip => new_str Returns a copy ofstr with leading whitespace removed. " hello ".lstrip #=> "hello " "hello".lstrip #=> "hello" str.rstrip => new_str Returns a copy ofstr with tailing whitespace removed. " hello ".lstrip #=> " hello" replace: str.replace(other_str) => str Replaces the contents ofstr with the corresponding values inother_str. s = "java" #=> "java" s.replace "Ruby" #=> "Ruby" reverse: str.reverse => new_str Returns a new string with the characters fromstr in reverse order. "stressed".reverse #=> "desserts" 4 Prepared By: Sumanth Krishna. A Ruby on Rails : Strings Methods with names ending in ``! modify their receiver. capitalize!: str.capitalize! => str or nil Modifiesstr by converting the first character to uppercase and the remainder to lowercase. Returnsnil if no changes are made. a = "hello" a.capitalize! #=> "Hello" a #=> "Hello" a.capitalize! #=> nil Following is the list of methods that ruby supports for the String Class. Experiment: % , *, +, <<, <=>, == , =~, [], []= , block_scanf, capitalize , casecmp, center, chomp, chop, concat, count, crypt, delete, downcase, dump, each, each_byte, each_char, each_line, hash , hex, index, initialize_copy, end_regexp, gsub, insert, inspect, intern, issjis,

isutf8, jcount, jlength, jsize, kconv, length, ljust, lstrip , iseuc, replace, reverse, Oct, quote , match , New, next, rindex, rjust, rstrip, scan, scanf, size, slice, split, squeeze, squeeze, strip, sub, sum, swapcase, unpack, upcase, upto, yaml_new chomp!, capitalize!, chop!,delete!, downcase!, gsub!, lstrip!, next!, reverse!, rstrip!, slice!, upcase!, empty?, eql?, include?, is_binary_data?, is_complex_yaml?, mbchar?, squeeze!, squeeze!, strip!, sub!, succ, succ!, swapcase!, to_f, to_i, to_s, to_str, to_sym, to_yaml toeuc tojis tosjis toutf16 toutf8 tr tr, tr!, tr!, tr_s, tr_s!, References: Ruby String Class: http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html 5 Prepared By: Sumanth Krishna. A Ruby on Rails Simple Examples & Strings Download this Document for FreePrintMobileCollectionsReport DocumentReport this document?Please tell us reason(s) for reporting this document Spam or junk Porn adult content Hateful or offensiveIf you are the copyright owner of this document and want to report it, please follow these directions to submit a copyright infringement notice.Report Cancel This is a private document. Info and Rating Reads:62,922Uploaded:12/18/2007Category:Uncategorized.Rated:4 Ratings()Copyright:Attribution Non-commercialThis document starts with simple math factorial function example and details the Ruby String Class with examples... ScienceTechnologyrailsrubyrubyonrailsrorstringclassrubystringsTechnology-General ScienceTechnologyrailsrubyrubyonrailsrorstringclassrubystringsTechnology-General (fewer) Sumanth KrishnaShare & Embed Related Documents PreviousNext p. p. p. p. p. p. p. p. p. p. p. p. p. p. p. p. p. p. p. p. p. p. p. p. p. p. p. p. p.

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