class String

Builds a String by creating a String::Builder with the given initial capacity, yielding it to the block and finally getting a String out of it. The String::Builder automatically resizes as needed.

str = String.build do |str|
  str << "hello "
  str << 1
end
str # => "hello 1"

Decodes the given slice UTF-16 sequence into a String.

Invalid values are encoded using the unicode replacement char with codepoint 0xfffd.

slice = Slice[104_u16, 105_u16, 32_u16, 55296_u16, 56485_u16]
String.from_utf16(slice) # => "hi 𐂥"

If slice is a pointer, the string ends when a zero value is found.

slice = Slice[104_u16, 105_u16, 0_u16, 55296_u16, 56485_u16]
String.from_utf16(slice)           # => "hi\0000𐂥"
String.from_utf16(slice.to_unsafe) # => "hi"

Creates a new String from the given bytes, which are encoded in the given encoding.

The invalid argument can be:

• nil: an exception is raised on invalid byte sequences
• :skip: invalid byte sequences are ignored

slice = Slice.new(2, 0_u8)
slice[0] = 186_u8
slice[1] = 195_u8
String.new(slice, "GB2312") # => "好"

Creates a new String from a pointer, indicating its bytesize count and, optionally, the UTF-8 codepoints count (size). Bytes will be copied from the pointer.

If the given size is zero, the amount of UTF-8 codepoints will be lazily computed when needed.

ptr = Pointer.malloc(4) { |i| ('a'.ord + i).to_u8 }
String.new(ptr, 2) # => "ab"

Creates a String from the given slice. Bytes will be copied from the slice.

This method is always safe to call, and the resulting string will have the contents and size of the slice.

slice = Slice.new(4) { |i| ('a'.ord + i).to_u8 }
String.new(slice) # => "abcd"

Creates a String from a pointer. Bytes will be copied from the pointer.

This method is unsafe: the pointer must point to data that eventually contains a zero byte that indicates the ends of the string. Otherwise, the result of this method is undefined and might cause a segmentation fault.

This method is typically used in C bindings, where you get a char* from a library and the library guarantees that this pointer eventually has an ending zero byte.

ptr = Pointer.malloc(5) { |i| i == 4 ? 0_u8 : ('a'.ord + i).to_u8 }
String.new(ptr) # => "abcd"

Creates a new String by allocating a buffer (Pointer(UInt8)) with the given capacity, then yielding that buffer. The block must return a tuple with the bytesize and size (UTF-8 codepoints count) of the String. If the returned size is zero, the UTF-8 codepoints count will be lazily computed.

The bytesize returned by the block must be less than or equal to the capacity given to this String, otherwise ArgumentError is raised.

If you need to build a String where the maximum capacity is unknown, use String#build.

str = String.new(4) do |buffer|
  buffer[0] = 'a'.ord.to_u8
  buffer[1] = 'b'.ord.to_u8
  {2, 2}
end
str # => "ab"

Interpolates other into the string using Kernel#sprintf.

"I have %d apples" % 5                                             # => "I have 5 apples"
"%s, %s, %s, D" % ['A', 'B', 'C']                                  # => "A, B, C, D"
"sum: %{one} + %{two} = %{three}" % {one: 1, two: 2, three: 1 + 2} # => "sum: 1 + 2 = 3"
"I have %<apples>s apples" % {apples: 4}                           # => "I have 4 apples"

Makes a new String by adding str to itself times times.

"Developers! " * 4
# => "Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! "

Concatenates str and other.

"abc" + "def" # => "abcdef"
"abc" + 'd'   # => "abcd"

Concatenates str and other.

"abc" + "def" # => "abcdef"
"abc" + 'd'   # => "abcd"

Compares this string with other, returning -1, 0 or +1 depending on whether this string is less, equal or greater than other.

Comparison is done byte-per-byte: if a byte is less then the other corresponding byte, -1 is returned and so on.

If the strings are of different lengths, and the strings are equal when compared up to the shortest length, then the longer string is considered greater than the shorter one.

"abcdef" <=> "abcde"   # => 1
"abcdef" <=> "abcdef"  # => 0
"abcdef" <=> "abcdefg" # => -1
"abcdef" <=> "ABCDEF"  # => 1

Tests whether str matches regex. If successful, it returns the position of the first match. If unsuccessful, it returns nil.

If the argument isn't a Regex, it returns nil.

"Haystack" =~ /ay/ # => 1
"Haystack" =~ /z/  # => nil

"Haystack" =~ 45 # => nil

Tests whether str matches regex. If successful, it returns the position of the first match. If unsuccessful, it returns nil.

If the argument isn't a Regex, it returns nil.

"Haystack" =~ /ay/ # => 1
"Haystack" =~ /z/  # => nil

"Haystack" =~ 45 # => nil

Returns a substring starting from the start character of size count.

The start argument can be negative to start counting from the end of the string.

Raises IndexError if start isn't in range.

Raises ArgumentError if count is negative.

Returns the Char at the given index, or raises IndexError if out of bounds.

Negative indices can be used to start counting from the end of the string.

"hello"[0]  # 'h'
"hello"[1]  # 'e'
"hello"[-1] # 'o'
"hello"[-2] # 'l'
"hello"[5]  # raises IndexError

Returns a substring by using a Range's begin and end as character indices. Indices can be negative to start counting from the end of the string.

Raises IndexError if the range's start is not in range.

"hello"[0..2]   # "hel"
"hello"[0...2]  # "he"
"hello"[1..-1]  # "ello"
"hello"[1...-1] # "ell"

Returns true if this String is comprised in its entirety by ASCII characters.

"hello".ascii_only? # => true
"你好".ascii_only?    # => false

Returns true if this string consists exclusively of unicode whitespace.

"".blank?        # => true
"   ".blank?     # => true
"   a   ".blank? # => false

Returns the char index of a byte index, or nil if out of bounds.

It is valid to pass #bytesize to index, and in this case the answer will be the size of this string.

Returns this string's bytes as an Array(UInt8).

"hello".bytes # => [104, 101, 108, 108, 111]
"你好".bytes    # => [228, 189, 160, 229, 165, 189]

Returns the number of bytes in this string.

"hello".bytesize # => 5
"你好".bytesize    # => 6

Converts underscores to camelcase boundaries.

"eiffel_tower".camelcase # => "EiffelTower"

Returns a new String with the first letter converted to uppercase and every subsequent letter converted to lowercase.

"hEllO".capitalize # => "Hello"

Returns the byte index of a char index, or nil if out of bounds.

It is valid to pass #size to index, and in this case the answer will be the bytesize of this string.

"hello".char_index_to_byte_index(1) # => 1
"hello".char_index_to_byte_index(5) # => 5
"こんにちは".char_index_to_byte_index(1) # => 3
"こんにちは".char_index_to_byte_index(5) # => 15

Returns an Array of all characters in the string.

"ab☃".chars # => ['a', 'b', '☃']

Raises an ArgumentError if self has null bytes. Returns self otherwise.

This method should sometimes be called before passing a String to a C function.

Returns a new String with suffix removed from the end of the string. If suffix is "\n" then "\r\n" is also removed if the string ends with it,

"hello".chomp("llo") # => "he"
"hello".chomp("ol")  # => "hello"

Returns a new String with suffix removed from the end of the string. If suffix is '\n' then "\r\n" is also removed if the string ends with it,

"hello".chomp('o') # => "hell"
"hello".chomp('a') # => "hello"

Returns a new String with the last carriage return removed (that is, it will remove \n, \r, and \r\n).

"string\r\n".chomp # => "string"
"string\n\r".chomp # => "string\n"
"string\n".chomp   # => "string"
"string".chomp     # => "string"
"x".chomp.chomp    # => "x"

Returns an Array of the codepoints that make the string.

"ab☃".codepoints # => [97, 98, 9731]

See also: Char#ord.

Compares this string with other, returning -1, 0 or +1 depending on whether this string is less, equal or greater than other, optionally in a case_insensitive manner.

If case_insitive is false, this method delegates to #<=>. Otherwise, the strings are compared char-by-char, and ASCII characters are compared in a case-insensitive way.

"abcdef".compare("abcde")   # => 1
"abcdef".compare("abcdef")  # => 0
"abcdef".compare("abcdefg") # => -1
"abcdef".compare("ABCDEF")  # => 1

"abcdef".compare("ABCDEF", case_insensitive: true) # => 0
"abcdef".compare("ABCDEG", case_insensitive: true) # => -1

Yields each char in this string to the block, returns the number of times the block returned a truthy value.

"aabbcc".count { |c| ['a', 'b'].includes?(c) } # => 4

Sets should be a list of strings following the rules described at Char#in_set?. Returns the number of characters in this string that match the given set.

Counts the occurrences of other char in this string.

"aabbcc".count('a') # => 2

Yields each char in this string to the block. Returns a new String with all characters for which the block returned a truthy value removed.

"aabbcc".delete { |c| ['a', 'b'].includes?(c) } # => "cc"

Returns a new String with all occurrences of char removed.

"aabbcc".delete('b') # => "aacc"

Sets should be a list of strings following the rules described at Char#in_set?. Returns a new String with all characters that match the given set removed.

"aabbccdd".delete("a-c") # => "dd"

Returns a new String with each uppercase letter replaced with its lowercase counterpart.

"hEllO".downcase # => "hello"

Appends self to the given IO object using character escapes for special characters and and non-ascii characters (unicode codepoints > 128), wrapped in quotes.

Returns a representation of self using character escapes for special characters and and non-ascii characters (unicode codepoints > 128), wrapped in quotes.

"\u{1f48e} - à la carte\n".dump # => %("\\u{1F48E} - \\u00E0 la carte\\n")

Returns a representation of self using character escapes for special characters and and non-ascii characters (unicode codepoints > 128), but not wrapped in quotes.

"\u{1f48e} - à la carte\n".dump_unquoted # => %(\\u{1F48E} - \\u00E0 la carte\\n)

Appends self to the given IO object using character escapes for special characters and and non-ascii characters (unicode codepoints > 128), but not wrapped in quotes.

Returns an Iterator over each byte in the string.

bytes = "ab☃".each_byte
bytes.next # => 97
bytes.next # => 98
bytes.next # => 226
bytes.next # => 152
bytes.next # => 131

Yields each byte in the string to the block.

array = [] of UInt8
"ab☃".each_byte do |byte|
  array << byte
end
array # => [97, 98, 226, 152, 131]

Yields each character in the string to the block.

array = [] of Char
"ab☃".each_char do |char|
  array << char
end
array # => ['a', 'b', '☃']

Returns an Iterator over each character in the string.

chars = "ab☃".each_char
chars.next # => 'a'
chars.next # => 'b'
chars.next # => '☃'

Yields each character and its index in the string to the block.

array = [] of Tuple(Char, Int32)
"ab☃".each_char_with_index do |char, index|
  array << {char, index}
end
array # => [{'a', 0}, {'b', 1}, {'☃', 2}]

Returns an Iterator for each codepoint.

codepoints = "ab☃".each_codepoint
codepoints.next # => 97
codepoints.next # => 98
codepoints.next # => 9731

See also: Char#ord.

Yields each codepoint to the block.

array = [] of Int32
"ab☃".each_codepoint do |codepoint|
  array << codepoint
end
array # => [97, 98, 9731]

See also: Char#ord.

Returns an Iterator which yields each line of this string (see String#each_line).

Splits the string after each newline and yields each line to a block.

haiku = "the first cold shower
even the monkey seems to want
a little coat of straw"
haiku.each_line do |stanza|
  puts stanza.upcase
end
# => THE FIRST COLD SHOWER
# => EVEN THE MONKEY SEEMS TO WANT
# => A LITTLE COAT OF STRAW

Returns true if this is the empty string, "".

Returns a slice of bytes containing this string encoded in the given encoding.

The invalid argument can be:

• nil: an exception is raised on invalid byte sequences
• :skip: invalid byte sequences are ignored

"好".encode("GB2312") # => Bytes[186, 195]
"好".bytes            # => [229, 165, 189]

Returns a String where all occurrences of the given string are replaced with the block's value.

"hello yellow".gsub("ll") { "dd" } # => "heddo yeddow"

Returns a String where each character yielded to the given block is replaced by the block's return value.

"hello".gsub { |char| char + 1 } # => "ifmmp"
"hello".gsub { "hi" }            # => "hihihihihi"

Returns a String where all occurrences of the given char are replaced with the given replacement.

"hello".gsub('l', "lo")      # => "heloloo"
"hello world".gsub('o', 'a') # => "hella warld"

Returns a String where all occurrences of the given pattern are replaced with a hash of replacements. If the hash contains the matched pattern, the corresponding value is used as a replacement. Otherwise the match is not included in the returned string.

# "he" and "l" are matched and replaced,
# but "o" is not and so is not included
"hello".gsub(/(he|l|o)/, {"he": "ha", "l": "la"}) # => "halala"

Returns a String where all occurrences of the given pattern are replaced with the given replacement.

"hello".gsub(/[aeiou]/, '*') # => "h*ll*"

Within replacement, the special match variable $~ will not refer to the current match.

If backreferences is true (the default value), replacement can include backreferences:

"hello".gsub(/[aeiou]/, "(\\0)") # => "h(e)ll(o)"

When substitution is performed, any backreferences found in replacement will be replaced with the contents of the corresponding capture group in pattern. Backreferences to capture groups that were not present in pattern or that did not match will be skipped. See Regex for information about capture groups.

Backreferences are expressed in the form "\\d", where d is a group number, or "\\k" where name is the name of a named capture group. A sequence of literal characters resembling a backreference can be expressed by placing "\\" before the sequence.

"foo".gsub(/o/, "x\\0x")                  # => "fxoxxox"
"foofoo".gsub(/(?<bar>oo)/, "|\\k<bar>|") # => "f|oo|f|oo|"
"foo".gsub(/o/, "\\\\0")                  # => "f\\0\\0"

Raises ArgumentError if an incomplete named back-reference is present in replacement.

Raises IndexError if a named group referenced in replacement is not present in pattern.

Returns a String where all occurrences of the given string are replaced with the given replacement.

"hello yellow".gsub("ll", "dd") # => "heddo yeddow"

Returns a String where all chars in the given hash are replaced by the corresponding hash values.

"hello".gsub({'e' => 'a', 'l' => 'd'}) # => "haddo"

Returns a String where all chars in the given named tuple are replaced by the corresponding tuple values.

"hello".gsub({e: 'a', l: 'd'}) # => "haddo"

Returns a String where all occurrences of the given pattern are replaced by the block value's value.

"hello".gsub(/./) { |s| s[0].ord.to_s + ' ' } # => "104 101 108 108 111 "

This returns true if this string has '\\' in it. It might not be a back reference, but '\\' is probably used for back references, so this check is faster than parsing the whole thing.

See Object#hash(hasher)

Interprets this string as containing a sequence of hexadecimal values and decodes it as a slice of bytes. Two consecutive bytes in the string represent a byte in the returned slice.

Raises ArgumentError if this string does not denote an hexstring.

"0102031aff".hexbytes  # => Bytes[1, 2, 3, 26, 255]
"1".hexbytes           # raises ArgumentError
"hello world".hexbytes # raises ArgumentError

Interprets this string as containing a sequence of hexadecimal values and decodes it as a slice of bytes. Two consecutive bytes in the string represent a byte in the returned slice.

Returns nil if this string does not denote an hexstring.

"0102031aff".hexbytes?  # => Bytes[1, 2, 3, 26, 255]
"1".hexbytes?           # => nil
"hello world".hexbytes? # => nil

Returns true if the string contains search.

"Team".includes?('i')            # => false
"Dysfunctional".includes?("fun") # => true

Returns the index of search in the string, or nil if the string is not present. If offset is present, it defines the position to start the search.

"Hello, World".index('o')    # => 4
"Hello, World".index('Z')    # => nil
"Hello, World".index("o", 5) # => 8
"Hello, World".index("H", 2) # => nil
"Hello, World".index(/[ ]+/) # => 6
"Hello, World".index(/\d+/)  # => nil

Returns the index of search in the string, or nil if the string is not present. If offset is present, it defines the position to start the search.

"Hello, World".index('o')    # => 4
"Hello, World".index('Z')    # => nil
"Hello, World".index("o", 5) # => 8
"Hello, World".index("H", 2) # => nil
"Hello, World".index(/[ ]+/) # => 6
"Hello, World".index(/\d+/)  # => nil

Returns the index of search in the string, or nil if the string is not present. If offset is present, it defines the position to start the search.

"Hello, World".index('o')    # => 4
"Hello, World".index('Z')    # => nil
"Hello, World".index("o", 5) # => 8
"Hello, World".index("H", 2) # => nil
"Hello, World".index(/[ ]+/) # => 6
"Hello, World".index(/\d+/)  # => nil

Returns a new String that results of inserting other in self at index. Negative indices count from the end of the string, and insert after the given index.

Raises IndexError if the index is out of bounds.

"abcd".insert(0, 'X')  # => "Xabcd"
"abcd".insert(3, 'X')  # => "abcXd"
"abcd".insert(4, 'X')  # => "abcdX"
"abcd".insert(-3, 'X') # => "abXcd"
"abcd".insert(-1, 'X') # => "abcdX"

"abcd".insert(5, 'X')  # raises IndexError
"abcd".insert(-6, 'X') # raises IndexError

Returns a new String that results of inserting other in self at index. Negative indices count from the end of the string, and insert after the given index.

Raises IndexError if the index is out of bounds.

"abcd".insert(0, "FOO")  # => "FOOabcd"
"abcd".insert(3, "FOO")  # => "abcFOOd"
"abcd".insert(4, "FOO")  # => "abcdFOO"
"abcd".insert(-3, "FOO") # => "abFOOcd"
"abcd".insert(-1, "FOO") # => "abcdFOO"

"abcd".insert(5, "FOO")  # raises IndexError
"abcd".insert(-6, "FOO") # raises IndexError

Returns a representation of self using character escapes for special characters and wrapped in quotes.

"\u{1f48e} - à la carte\n".inspect # => %("\u{1F48E} - à la carte\\n")

Appends self to the given IO object using character escapes for special characters and wrapped in double quotes.

Returns a representation of self using character escapes for special characters but not wrapped in quotes.

"\u{1f48e} - à la carte\n".inspect_unquoted # => %(\u{1F48E} - à la carte\\n)

Appends self to the given IO object using character escapes for special characters but not wrapped in quotes.

Returns a new String with the first char removed from it. Applying lchop to an empty string returns an empty string.

"hello".lchop # => "ello"
"".lchop      # => ""

Returns a new String with prefix removed from the beginning of the string.

"hello".lchop("hel") # => "lo"
"hello".lchop("eh")  # => "hello"

Returns a new String with prefix removed from the beginning of the string.

"hello".lchop('h') # => "ello"
"hello".lchop('g') # => "hello"

Adds instances of char to right of the string until it is at least size of len.

"Purple".ljust(8)      # => "Purple  "
"Purple".ljust(8, '-') # => "Purple--"
"Aubergine".ljust(8)   # => "Aubergine"

Returns a new string where leading occurrences of any char in chars are removed. The chars argument is not a suffix; rather; all combinations of its values are stripped.

"bcadefcba".lstrip("abc") # => "defcba"

Returns a new string where leading characters for which the block returns a truthy value are removed.

"bcadefcba".lstrip { |c| 'a' <= c <= 'c' } # => "defcba"

Returns a new string with leading occurrences of char removed.

"aaabcdaaa".lstrip('a') # => "bcdaaa"

Returns a new String with leading whitespace removed.

"    hello    ".lstrip # => "hello    "
"\tgoodbye\r\n".lstrip # => "goodbye\r\n"

Finds match of regex, starting at pos.

Searches separator or pattern (Regex) in the string, and returns a Tuple with the part before it, the match, and the part after it. If it is not found, returns str followed by two empty strings.

"hello".partition("l") # => {"he", "l", "lo"}
"hello".partition("x") # => {"hello", "", ""}

Searches separator or pattern (Regex) in the string, and returns a Tuple with the part before it, the match, and the part after it. If it is not found, returns str followed by two empty strings.

"hello".partition("l") # => {"he", "l", "lo"}
"hello".partition("x") # => {"hello", "", ""}

Pretty prints self into the given printer.

Returns a new String with suffix removed from the end of the string.

"string".rchop('g') # => "strin"
"string".rchop('x') # => "string"

Returns a new String with suffix removed from the end of the string.

"string".rchop("ing") # => "str"
"string".rchop("inx") # => "string"

Returns a new String with the last character removed. Applying rchop to an empty string returns an empty string.

"string\r\n".rchop # => "string\r"
"string\n\r".rchop # => "string\n"
"string\n".rchop   # => "string"
"string".rchop     # => "strin"
"x".rchop.rchop    # => ""

Reverses the order of characters in the string.

"Argentina".reverse # => "anitnegrA"
"racecar".reverse   # => "racecar"

Returns the index of the last appearance of search in the string, If offset is present, it defines the position to end the search (characters beyond this point are ignored).

"Hello, World".rindex('o')    # => 8
"Hello, World".rindex('Z')    # => nil
"Hello, World".rindex("o", 5) # => 4
"Hello, World".rindex("W", 2) # => nil

Returns the index of the last appearance of search in the string, If offset is present, it defines the position to end the search (characters beyond this point are ignored).

"Hello, World".rindex('o')    # => 8
"Hello, World".rindex('Z')    # => nil
"Hello, World".rindex("o", 5) # => 4
"Hello, World".rindex("W", 2) # => nil

Returns the index of the last appearance of search in the string, If offset is present, it defines the position to end the search (characters beyond this point are ignored).

"Hello, World".rindex('o')    # => 8
"Hello, World".rindex('Z')    # => nil
"Hello, World".rindex("o", 5) # => 4
"Hello, World".rindex("W", 2) # => nil

Adds instances of char to left of the string until it is at least size of len.

"Purple".rjust(8)      # => "  Purple"
"Purple".rjust(8, '-') # => "--Purple"
"Aubergine".rjust(8)   # => "Aubergine"

Searches separator or pattern (Regex) in the string from the end of the string, and returns a Tuple with the part before it, the match, and the part after it. If it is not found, returns two empty strings and str.

"hello".rpartition("l")  # => {"hel", "l", "o"}
"hello".rpartition("x")  # => {"", "", "hello"}
"hello".rpartition(/.l/) # => {"he", "ll", "o"}

Searches separator or pattern (Regex) in the string from the end of the string, and returns a Tuple with the part before it, the match, and the part after it. If it is not found, returns two empty strings and str.

"hello".rpartition("l")  # => {"hel", "l", "o"}
"hello".rpartition("x")  # => {"", "", "hello"}
"hello".rpartition(/.l/) # => {"he", "ll", "o"}

Returns a new string where trailing occurrences of any char in chars are removed. The chars argument is not a suffix; rather; all combinations of its values are stripped.

"abcdefcba".rstrip("abc") # => "abcdef"

Returns a new string with trailing occurrences of char removed.

"aaabcdaaa".rstrip('a') # => "aaabcd"

Returns a new String with trailing whitespace removed.

"    hello    ".rstrip # => "    hello"
"\tgoodbye\r\n".rstrip # => "\tgoodbye"

Returns a new string where trailing characters for which the block returns a truthy value are removed.

"bcadefcba".rstrip { |c| 'a' <= c <= 'c' } # => "bcadef"

Searches the string for instances of pattern, yielding a Regex::MatchData for each match.

Searches the string for instances of pattern, returning an Array of Regex::MatchData for each match.

Searches the string for instances of pattern, yielding the matched string for each match.

Searches the string for instances of pattern, returning an array of the matched string for each match.

Returns a String where bytes that are invalid in the UTF-8 encoding are replaced with replacement.

Returns the number of unicode codepoints in this string.

"hello".size # => 5
"你好".size    # => 2

Splits the string after each string separator and yields each part to a block.

If limit is present, the array will be limited to limit items and the final item will contain the remainder of the string.

If separator is an empty string (""), the string will be separated into one-character strings.

If remove_empty is true, any empty strings are removed from the result.

ary = [] of String
long_river_name = "Mississippi"

long_river_name.split("ss") { |s| ary << s }
ary # => ["Mi", "i", "ippi"]
ary.clear

long_river_name.split("i") { |s| ary << s }
ary # => ["M", "ss", "ss", "pp", ""]
ary.clear

long_river_name.split("i", remove_empty: true) { |s| ary << s }
ary # => ["M", "ss", "ss", "pp"]
ary.clear

long_river_name.split("") { |s| ary << s }
ary # => ["M", "i", "s", "s", "i", "s", "s", "i", "p", "p", "i"]

Makes an array by splitting the string on any amount of ASCII whitespace characters (and removing that whitespace).

If limit is present, up to limit new strings will be created, with the entire remainder added to the last string.

old_pond = "
  Old pond
  a frog leaps in
  water's sound
"
old_pond.split    # => ["Old", "pond", "a", "frog", "leaps", "in", "water's", "sound"]
old_pond.split(3) # => ["Old", "pond", "a frog leaps in\n  water's sound\n"]

Splits the string after each regex separator and yields each part to a block.

If limit is present, the array will be limited to limit items and the final item will contain the remainder of the string.

If separator is an empty regex (//), the string will be separated into one-character strings.

If remove_empty is true, any empty strings are removed from the result.

ary = [] of String
long_river_name = "Mississippi"

long_river_name.split(/s+/) { |s| ary << s }
ary # => ["Mi", "i", "ippi"]
ary.clear

long_river_name.split(//) { |s| ary << s }
ary # => ["M", "i", "s", "s", "i", "s", "s", "i", "p", "p", "i"]

Makes an Array by splitting the string on separator (and removing instances of separator).

If limit is present, the array will be limited to limit items and the final item will contain the remainder of the string.

If separator is an empty regex (//), the string will be separated into one-character strings.

If remove_empty is true, any empty strings are removed from the result.

long_river_name = "Mississippi"
long_river_name.split(/s+/) # => ["Mi", "i", "ippi"]
long_river_name.split(//)   # => ["M", "i", "s", "s", "i", "s", "s", "i", "p", "p", "i"]

Splits the string after any amount of ASCII whitespace characters and yields each non-whitespace part to a block.

If limit is present, up to limit new strings will be created, with the entire remainder added to the last string.

ary = [] of String
old_pond = "
  Old pond
  a frog leaps in
  water's sound
"

old_pond.split { |s| ary << s }
ary # => ["Old", "pond", "a", "frog", "leaps", "in", "water's", "sound"]
ary.clear

old_pond.split(3) { |s| ary << s }
ary # => ["Old", "pond", "a frog leaps in\n  water's sound\n"]

Makes an Array by splitting the string on the given character separator (and removing that character).

If limit is present, up to limit new strings will be created, with the entire remainder added to the last string.

If remove_empty is true, any empty strings are removed from the result.

"foo,,bar,baz".split(',')                     # => ["foo", "", "bar", "baz"]
"foo,,bar,baz".split(',', remove_empty: true) # => ["foo", "bar", "baz"]
"foo,bar,baz".split(',', 2)                   # => ["foo", "bar,baz"]

Splits the string after each character separator and yields each part to a block.

If limit is present, up to limit new strings will be created, with the entire remainder added to the last string.

If remove_empty is true, any empty strings are not yielded.

ary = [] of String

"foo,,bar,baz".split(',') { |string| ary << string }
ary # => ["foo", "", "bar", "baz"]
ary.clear

"foo,,bar,baz".split(',', remove_empty: true) { |string| ary << string }
ary # => ["foo", "bar", "baz"]
ary.clear

"foo,bar,baz".split(',', 2) { |string| ary << string }
ary # => ["foo", "bar,baz"]

Makes an Array by splitting the string on separator (and removing instances of separator).

If limit is present, the array will be limited to limit items and the final item will contain the remainder of the string.

If separator is an empty string (""), the string will be separated into one-character strings.

If remove_empty is true, any empty strings are removed from the result.

long_river_name = "Mississippi"
long_river_name.split("ss")                    # => ["Mi", "i", "ippi"]
long_river_name.split("i")                     # => ["M", "ss", "ss", "pp", ""]
long_river_name.split("i", remove_empty: true) # => ["M", "ss", "ss", "pp"]
long_river_name.split("")                      # => ["M", "i", "s", "s", "i", "s", "s", "i", "p", "p", "i"]

Yields each char in this string to the block. Returns a new String, that has all characters removed, that were the same as the previous one and for which the given block returned a truthy value.

"aaabbbccc".squeeze { |c| ['a', 'b'].includes?(c) } # => "abccc"
"aaabbbccc".squeeze { |c| ['a', 'c'].includes?(c) } # => "abbbc"

Returns a new String, with all runs of char replaced by one instance.

"a    bbb".squeeze(' ') # => "a bbb"

Returns a new String, that has all characters removed, that were the same as the previous one.

"a       bbb".squeeze # => "a b"

Sets should be a list of strings following the rules described at Char#in_set?. Returns a new String with all runs of the same character replaced by one instance, if they match the given set.

If no set is given, all characters are matched.

"aaabbbcccddd".squeeze("b-d") # => "aaabcd"
"a       bbb".squeeze         # => "a b"

Returns a new string where leading and trailing occurrences of char are removed.

"aaabcdaaa".strip('a') # => "bcd"

Returns a new string where leading and trailing occurrences of any char in chars are removed. The chars argument is not a prefix or suffix; rather; all combinations of its values are stripped.

"abcdefcba".strip("abc") # => "def"

Returns a new String with leading and trailing whitespace removed.

"    hello    ".strip # => "hello"
"\tgoodbye\r\n".strip # => "goodbye"

Returns a new string where leading and trailing characters for which the block returns a truthy value are removed.

"bcadefcba".strip { |c| 'a' <= c <= 'c' } # => "def"

Returns a String where the first char in the string matching a key in the given hash is replaced by the corresponding hash value.

"hello".sub({'a' => 'b', 'l' => 'd'}) # => "hedlo"

Returns a new String with characters at the given range replaced by replacement.

"hello".sub(1..2, "eee") # => "heeelo"

Returns a new String with characters at the given range replaced by replacement.

"hello".sub(1..2, 'a') # => "halo"

Returns a String where the first occurrence of pattern is replaced by the block's return value.

"hello".sub(/./) { |s| s[0].ord.to_s + ' ' } # => "104 ello"

Returns a String where the first occurrences of the given string is replaced with the given replacement.

"hello yellow".sub("ll", "dd") # => "heddo yellow"

Returns a String where the first occurrence of pattern is replaced by replacement

"hello".sub(/[aeiou]/, "*") # => "h*llo"

Within replacement, the special match variable $~ will not refer to the current match.

If backreferences is true (the default value), replacement can include backreferences:

"hello".sub(/[aeiou]/, "(\\0)") # => "h(e)llo"

When substitution is performed, any backreferences found in replacement will be replaced with the contents of the corresponding capture group in pattern. Backreferences to capture groups that were not present in pattern or that did not match will be skipped. See Regex for information about capture groups.

Backreferences are expressed in the form "\\d", where d is a group number, or "\\k<name>" where name is the name of a named capture group. A sequence of literal characters resembling a backreference can be expressed by placing "\\" before the sequence.

"foo".sub(/o/, "x\\0x")                  # => "fxoxo"
"foofoo".sub(/(?<bar>oo)/, "|\\k<bar>|") # => "f|oo|foo"
"foo".sub(/o/, "\\\\0")                  # => "f\\0o"

Raises ArgumentError if an incomplete named back-reference is present in replacement.

Raises IndexError if a named group referenced in replacement is not present in pattern.

Returns a String where the first occurrences of the given pattern is replaced with the matching entry from the hash of replacements. If the first match is not included in the hash, nothing is replaced.

"hello".sub(/(he|l|o)/, {"he": "ha", "l": "la"}) # => "hallo"
"hello".sub(/(he|l|o)/, {"l": "la"})             # => "hello"

Returns a String where the first occurrence of char is replaced by replacement.

"hello".sub('l', "lo")      # => "helolo"
"hello world".sub('o', 'a') # => "hella world"

Returns a new String with the character at the given index replaced by replacement.

"hello".sub(1, "eee") # => "heeello"

Returns a new String where the first character is yielded to the given block and replaced by its return value.

"hello".sub { |char| char + 1 } # => "iello"
"hello".sub { "hi" }            # => "hiello"

Returns a String where the first occurrences of the given string is replaced with the block's value.

"hello yellow".sub("ll") { "dd" } # => "heddo yellow"

Returns a new String with the character at the given index replaced by replacement.

"hello".sub(1, 'a') # => "hallo"

Returns the successor of the string. The successor is calculated by incrementing characters starting from the rightmost alphanumeric (or the rightmost character if there are no alphanumerics) in the string. Incrementing a digit always results in another digit, and incrementing a letter results in another letter of the same case.

If the increment generates a "carry", the character to the left of it is incremented. This process repeats until there is no carry, adding an additional character if necessary.

"abcd".succ      # => "abce"
"THX1138".succ   # => "THX1139"
"((koala))".succ # => "((koalb))"
"1999zzz".succ   # => "2000aaa"
"ZZZ9999".succ   # => "AAAA0000"
"***".succ       # => "**+"

Converts self to BigDecimal.

Returns a BigInt from this string, in the given base.

Raises ArgumentError if this string doesn't denote a valid integer.

Returns the result of interpreting characters in this string as a floating point number (Float64). This method raises an exception if the string is not a valid float representation.

Options:

• whitespace: if true, leading and trailing whitespaces are allowed
• strict: if true, extraneous characters past the end of the number are disallowed

"123.45e1".to_f                # => 1234.5
"45.67 degrees".to_f           # raises ArgumentError
"thx1138".to_f(strict: false)  # raises ArgumentError
" 1.2".to_f(whitespace: false) # raises ArgumentError
"1.2foo".to_f(strict: false)   # => 1.2

Same as #to_f but returns a Float32.

Same as #to_f? but returns a Float32.

Same as #to_f.

Same as #to_f?.

Returns the result of interpreting characters in this string as a floating point number (Float64). This method returns nil if the string is not a valid float representation.

Options:

• whitespace: if true, leading and trailing whitespaces are allowed
• strict: if true, extraneous characters past the end of the number are disallowed

"123.45e1".to_f?                # => 1234.5
"45.67 degrees".to_f?           # => nil
"thx1138".to_f?                 # => nil
" 1.2".to_f?(whitespace: false) # => nil
"1.2foo".to_f?(strict: false)   # => 1.2

Same as #to_i, but returns the block's value if there is not a valid number at the start of this string, or if the resulting integer doesn't fit an Int32.

"12345".to_i { 0 } # => 12345
"hello".to_i { 0 } # => 0

Returns the result of interpreting leading characters in this string as an integer base base (between 2 and 36).

If there is not a valid number at the start of this string, or if the resulting integer doesn't fit an Int32, an ArgumentError is raised.

Options:

• whitespace: if true, leading and trailing whitespaces are allowed
• underscore: if true, underscores in numbers are allowed
• prefix: if true, the prefixes "0x", "0" and "0b" override the base
• strict: if true, extraneous characters past the end of the number are disallowed

"12345".to_i             # => 12345
"0a".to_i                # raises ArgumentError
"hello".to_i             # raises ArgumentError
"0a".to_i(16)            # => 10
"1100101".to_i(2)        # => 101
"1100101".to_i(8)        # => 294977
"1100101".to_i(10)       # => 1100101
"1100101".to_i(base: 16) # => 17826049

"12_345".to_i                   # raises ArgumentError
"12_345".to_i(underscore: true) # => 12345

"  12345  ".to_i                    # => 12345
"  12345  ".to_i(whitespace: false) # raises ArgumentError

"0x123abc".to_i               # raises ArgumentError
"0x123abc".to_i(prefix: true) # => 1194684

"99 red balloons".to_i                # raises ArgumentError
"99 red balloons".to_i(strict: false) # => 99

Same as #to_i but returns an Int16.

Same as #to_i but returns an Int16 or the block's value.

Same as #to_i but returns an Int16 or nil.

Same as #to_i.

Same as #to_i.

Same as #to_i.

Same as #to_i but returns an Int64.

Same as #to_i but returns an Int64 or the block's value.

Same as #to_i but returns an Int64 or nil.

Same as #to_i but returns an Int8.

Same as #to_i but returns an Int8 or the block's value.

Same as #to_i but returns an Int8 or nil.

Same as #to_i, but returns nil if there is not a valid number at the start of this string, or if the resulting integer doesn't fit an Int32.

"12345".to_i?             # => 12345
"99 red balloons".to_i?   # => nil
"0a".to_i?(strict: false) # => 0
"hello".to_i?             # => nil

Returns the underlying bytes of this String in an unsafe way.

The returned slice is read-only.

Same as #to_i but returns an UInt16.

Same as #to_i but returns an UInt16 or the block's value.

Same as #to_i but returns an UInt16 or nil.

Same as #to_i but returns an UInt32.

Same as #to_i but returns an UInt32 or the block's value.

Same as #to_i but returns an UInt32 or nil.

Same as #to_i but returns an UInt64 or the block's value.

Same as #to_i but returns an UInt64.

Same as #to_i but returns an UInt64 or nil.

Same as #to_i but returns an UInt8.

Same as #to_i but returns an UInt8 or the block's value.

Same as #to_i but returns an UInt8 or nil.

Returns a pointer to the underlying bytes of this String.

Returns the UTF-16 encoding of the given string.

Invalid chars (in the range U+D800..U+DFFF) are encoded with the unicode replacement char value 0xfffd.

The byte following the end of this slice (but not included in it) is defined to be zero. This allows passing the result of this function into C functions that expect a null-terminated UInt16*.

"hi 𐂥".to_utf16 # => Slice[104_u16, 105_u16, 32_u16, 55296_u16, 56485_u16]

Returns a new string translating characters using from and to as a map. If to is shorter than from, the last character in to is used for the rest. If to is empty, this acts like String#delete.

"aabbcc".tr("abc", "xyz") # => "xxyyzz"
"aabbcc".tr("abc", "x")   # => "xxxxxx"
"aabbcc".tr("a", "xyz")   # => "xxbbcc"

Converts camelcase boundaries to underscores.

"DoesWhatItSaysOnTheTin".underscore # => "does_what_it_says_on_the_tin"
"PartyInTheUSA".underscore          # => "party_in_the_usa"
"HTTP_CLIENT".underscore            # => "http_client"
"3.14IsPi".underscore               # => "3.14_is_pi"

Returns a new String with each lowercase letter replaced with its uppercase counterpart.

"hEllO".upcase # => "HELLO"

Returns true if this String is encoded correctly according to the UTF-8 encoding.