The Ruby Way: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming, Second Edition

2.41. Conclusion

Here we have seen the basics of representing strings (both single-quoted and double-quoted). We’ve seen how to interpolate expressions into double-quoted strings, and how the double quotes also allow certain special characters to be inserted with escape sequences. We’ve seen the %q and %Q forms, which permit us to choose our own delimiters for convenience. Finally, we’ve seen the here-document syntax, carried over from older contexts such as Unix shells.

This chapter has demonstrated all the important operations a programmer wants to perform on a string. These include concatenation, searching, extracting substrings, tokenizing, and much more. We have seen how to iterate over a string by line or by byte. We have seen how to transform ...