http://www.vidul.com/articles/2008/07/06/regexp-and-string-methods en-us 40 <p>Some of the more rarely used string methods:<br /></p> <div class="typocode"><pre><code class="typocode_ruby "><span class="ident">str</span> <span class="punct">=</span> <span class="punct">&quot;</span><span class="string">the tester</span><span class="punct">&quot;</span> <span class="ident">str</span><span class="punct">[&quot;</span><span class="string">tester</span><span class="punct">&quot;]</span> <span class="comment">#true, the String contains &quot;tester&quot;</span> <span class="ident">str</span><span class="punct">[/</span><span class="regex"><span class="escape">\w</span>+<span class="escape">\s\w</span>+</span><span class="punct">/]</span> <span class="comment">#true, the String matches the regexp</span></code></pre></div> emulates <a href="http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.src/M000729.html">capitalize!</a> <div class="typocode"><pre><code class="typocode_ruby "><span class="ident">str</span><span class="punct">[/</span><span class="regex">(<span class="escape">\w</span>+)</span><span class="punct">/]</span> <span class="punct">=</span> <span class="punct">(</span><span class="global">$1</span><span class="punct">[</span><span class="number">0</span><span class="punct">]</span> <span class="punct">-</span> <span class="number">32</span><span class="punct">).</span><span class="ident">chr</span></code></pre></div> <br /> <a href="http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html#M000700">RDoc Documentation</a> Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:04:00 -0600 urn:uuid:b4bb25a7-558f-4991-948f-921f7e4b7274 root http://www.vidul.com/articles/2008/07/06/regexp-and-string-methods Ruby string