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char in string « String « Ruby
Ruby
String
char in string
1.
Character literal
2.
Map chars in a string
3.
specify a Fixnum (integer) as an index, it returns the decimal character code for the character found at the index location
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Use string as array
5.
Change a string with offset
6.
taking the first letter from a string
7.
Accessing Strings
8.
If you add the chr method from the Integer class, you'll get the actual character:
9.
use an offset and length (two Fixnums) to tell [] the index location where you want to start, and then how many characters you want to retrieve
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Enter a range to grab a range of characters.
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use regular expressions
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Adding another argument, a Fixnum, returns that portion of the matched data, starting at 0 in this instance
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Concatenate string by string index
14.
Loop through a string with while