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  • 时间：2024-10-18

Ruby - Strings

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A String object in Ruby holds and manipulates an arbitrary sequence of one or more bytes, typically representing characters that represent human language.

The simplest string pterals are enclosed in single quotes (the apostrophe character). The text within the quote marks is the value of the string −

 This is a simple Ruby string pteral

If you need to place an apostrophe within a single-quoted string pteral, precede it with a backslash, so that the Ruby interpreter does not think that it terminates the string −

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The backslash also works to escape another backslash, so that the second backslash is not itself interpreted as an escape character.

Following are the string-related features of Ruby.

Expression Substitution

Expression substitution is a means of embedding the value of any Ruby expression into a string using #{ and } −

#!/usr/bin/ruby

x, y, z = 12, 36, 72
puts "The value of x is #{ x }."
puts "The sum of x and y is #{ x + y }."
puts "The average was #{ (x + y + z)/3 }."

This will produce the following result −

The value of x is 12.
The sum of x and y is 48.
The average was 40.

General Depmited Strings

With general depmited strings, you can create strings inside a pair of matching though arbitrary depmiter characters, e.g., !, (, {, <, etc., preceded by a percent character (%). Q, q, and x have special meanings. General depmited strings can be −

%{Ruby is fun.}  equivalent to "Ruby is fun."
%Q{ Ruby is fun. } equivalent to " Ruby is fun. "
%q[Ruby is fun.]  equivalent to a single-quoted string
%x!ls! equivalent to back tick command output `ls`

Escape Characters

Character Encoding

The default character set for Ruby is ASCII, whose characters may be represented by single bytes. If you use UTF-8, or another modern character set, characters may be represented in one to four bytes.

You can change your character set using $KCODE at the beginning of your program, pke this −

$KCODE =  u

String Built-in Methods

We need to have an instance of String object to call a String method. Following is the way to create an instance of String object −

new [String.new(str = "")]

This will return a new string object containing a copy of str. Now, using str object, we can all use any available instance methods. For example −

#!/usr/bin/ruby

myStr = String.new("THIS IS TEST")
foo = myStr.downcase

puts "#{foo}"

This will produce the following result −

this is test

String unpack Directives

Example

Try the following example to unpack various data.

"abc abc ".unpack( A6Z6 )   #=> ["abc", "abc "]
"abc ".unpack( a3a3 )           #=> ["abc", " 0000"]
"abc abc ".unpack( Z*Z* )       #=> ["abc ", "abc "]
"aa".unpack( b8B8 )                 #=> ["10000110", "01100001"]
"aaa".unpack( h2H2c )               #=> ["16", "61", 97]
"xfexffxfexff".unpack( sS )     #=> [-2, 65534]
"now = 20is".unpack( M* )           #=> ["now is"]
"whole".unpack( xax2aX2aX1aX2a )    #=> ["h", "e", "l", "l", "o"]
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