Tag: strings
Episode #639
Interpolation over Concatenation
Why do Ruby programmers use so much String interpolation where other devs might prefer concatenation? Join Jessitron and Avdi for a dialog on language design, idiom, and history!
Episode #608
Composed Regex
Regular expressions can quickly grow to be large, dense, and impenetrable. In today’s episode you’ll learn how Ruby helps you compose them out of smaller, manageable pieces!
Episode #535
Episode #535: String Cleaning with Avdi
Master Ruby's power tools for cleaning up and normalizing strings.
Episode 524: Data Munging Play-by-Play Part 2 with Avdi Grimm
Part 2/2 of a play-by-play of a recent Ruby data-munging coding session. More fun with regexes, lazy enumerators, and more!
Episode 523: Data Munging Play-by-Play Part 1 with Avdi Grimm
Check out this play-by-play of a recent Ruby data-munging coding session, with commentary on live/fast feedback, lazy enumerators, and more!
How to make your Ruby code work on Windows PCs
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 …
Episode #399: StringIO Test Fake
Today we learn about how the StringIO class can help us test methods that work with files.
Episode #398: StringIO
After many passing mentions, StringIO finally gets its own episode!
Episode #382: Integer To String, Part 2
In the thrilling conclusion to Part 1, we generalize our solution and discuss algorithm-solving strategy.