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- 2.1 Representing Ordinary Strings
- 2.2 Representing Strings with Alternate Notations
- 2.3 Using Here-Documents
- 2.4 Finding the Length of a String
- 2.5 Processing a Line at a Time
- 2.6 Processing a Byte at a Time
- 2.7 Performing Specialized String Comparisons
- 2.8 Tokenizing a String
- 2.9 Formatting a String
- 2.10 Using Strings As IO Objects
- 2.11 Controlling Uppercase and Lowercase
- 2.12 Accessing and Assigning Substrings
- 2.13 Substituting in Strings
- 2.14 Searching a String
- 2.15 Converting Between Characters and ASCII Codes
- 2.16 Implicit and Explicit Conversion
- 2.17 Appending an Item Onto a String
- 2.18 Removing Trailing Newlines and Other Characters
- 2.19 Trimming Whitespace from a String
- 2.20 Repeating Strings
- 2.21 Embedding Expressions Within Strings
- 2.22 Delayed Interpolation of Strings
- 2.23 Parsing Comma-Separated Data
- 2.24 Converting Strings to Numbers (Decimal and Otherwise)
- 2.25 Encoding and Decoding rot13 Text
- 2.26 Encrypting Strings
- 2.27 Compressing Strings
- 2.28 Counting Characters in Strings
- 2.29 Reversing a String
- 2.30 Removing Duplicate Characters
- 2.31 Removing Specific Characters
- 2.32 Printing Special Characters
- 2.33 Generating Successive Strings
- 2.34 Calculating a 32-Bit CRC
- 2.35 Calculating the MD5 Hash of a String
- 2.36 Calculating the Levenshtein Distance Between Two Strings
- 2.37 Encoding and Decoding base64 Strings
- 2.38 Encoding and Decoding Strings (uuencode/uudecode)
- 2.39 Expanding and Compressing Tab Characters
- 2.40 Wrapping Lines of Text
- 2.41 Conclusion
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2.39 Expanding and Compressing Tab Characters
Occasionally we have a string with tabs in it and we want to convert them to spaces (or vice versa). The two methods shown here do these operations.
class String
def detab(ts=8)
str = self.dup
while (leftmost = str.index("\t")) != nil
space = " "*(ts-(leftmost%ts))
str[leftmost]=space
end
str
end
def entab(ts=8)
str = self.detab
areas = str.length/ts
newstr = ""
for a in 0..areas
temp = str[a*ts..a*ts+ts-1]
if temp.size==ts
if temp =~ / +/
match=Regexp.last_match[0]
endmatch = Regexp.new(match+"$")
if match.length>1
temp.sub!(endmatch,"\t")
end
end
end
newstr += temp
end
newstr
end
end
foo = "This is only a test. "
puts foo
puts foo.entab(4)
puts foo.entab(4).dump
Note that this code is not smart enough to handle backspaces.