Ruby - Strings and Regular Expressions

Strings and Regular Expressions - Ruby module R109

Strings and regular expressions are the core of most Ruby applications and you'll be thrilled at the broad scope of methods available to you.

This topic is presented on public course Ruby Programming

Examples from our training material

heredocs.rb	Here Documents in Ruby
rex1.rb	Ruby regular expression demo
rex2.rb	Splitting at a regular expression
sop.rb	+ and * on strings in Ruby
stdo.rb	Using some of ruby's string methods
str_types.rb	Ways of writing a string

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Background information

Some modules are available for download as a sample of our material or under an Open Training Notes License for free download from http://www.training-notes.co.uk.

Topics covered in this module

Anchors, literals, character groups and counts.
Matching in Ruby.
Modifiers i, o, x and m.
Pattern matching variables.

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