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(Ruby) String - jccovey

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:18:46 GMT

(Ruby) Regex replace - noah

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:09:21 GMT

Equivalent of the Perl code: url =~ s/foo/bar/

(Ruby) Ruby heredoc tricks - cczona

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:31:08 GMT

Following a

(Ruby) Use regex to match a Ruby substring, and reference it like an index - cczona

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:41:41 GMT

(Ruby) to_str vs to_s - cczona

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:25:21 GMT

(Ruby) make Ruby strings behave like files - cczona

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:38:19 GMT

This is handy for testing, when you need to simulate an open file or open URI. Why, and the Pickaxe book, have better examples

(Ruby) Format strings like PRINT USING - Agent

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:38:54 GMT

This is an extension to Ruby's String class. Just put this code in a file and include it. This basically takes a string and adds literals and padding to it. For example, you can format a phone number with optional area code like this: "5445556747".using('(###) ###-####', '', true) => (544) 555-6747