Tag: strings

A string is a data structure which represents a sequence of characters or bytes. In Ruby, the String class encapsulates this data structure. It exposes operations for manipulating the sequence at both the raw byte level and at the encoded character level.

Episode #535
Episode #535: String Cleaning with Avdi

July 9, 2018

Master Ruby's power tools for cleaning up and normalizing strings.

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Episode 524: Data Munging Play-by-Play Part 2 with Avdi Grimm

April 23, 2018

Part 2/2 of a play-by-play of a recent Ruby data-munging coding session. More fun with regexes, lazy enumerators, and more!

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Episode 523: Data Munging Play-by-Play Part 1 with Avdi Grimm

April 16, 2018

Check out this play-by-play of a recent Ruby data-munging coding session, with commentary on live/fast feedback, lazy enumerators, and more!

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How to make your Ruby code work on Windows PCs

December 14, 2016

Windows users can feel like second-class-citizens in the Ruby world. Ruby gems and tools often don't work quite right on Windows hosts. But we can fix this. Making your code …

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Episode #399: StringIO Test Fake

April 7, 2016

Today we learn about how the StringIO class can help us test methods that work with files.

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Episode #398: StringIO

April 4, 2016

After many passing mentions, StringIO finally gets its own episode!

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Episode #382: Integer To String, Part 2

February 8, 2016

In the thrilling conclusion to Part 1, we generalize our solution and discuss algorithm-solving strategy.

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Episode #381: Integer To String

February 4, 2016

Today, a little computer-science problem offers some useful insights.

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Episode #352: String Justify

October 24, 2015

In this episode, we'll learn how to do basic tabular text layouts without resorting to printf-style format specifiers.

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Episode #247: Multiline Strings

October 16, 2014

Today we'll compare a few different ways to quote large, multi-line blocks of text.

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