[ruby-core:77041] [Ruby trunk Feature#12698] Method to delete a substring by regex match

Issue #12698 has been updated by Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA.


Active Support already has `String#remove`.

```
$ irb -r irb/completion --simple-prompt
>> require 'active_support/all'
=> true
>> "abcabc".remove("c")
=> "abab"
>> "abcabc".remove(/\zc/)
=> "abcabc"
>> "abcabc".remove(/c\z/)
=> "abcab"
>> "abcabc".remove(/\Aabc/)
=> "abc"
```


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Feature #12698: Method to delete a substring by regex match
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12698#change-60266

* Author: Tsuyoshi Sawada
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
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There is frequent need to delete a substring from a string. There already are methods `String#delete` and `String#delete!`, but their feature is a little bit different from the use cases that I am mentioning here.

I request methods that take a string or a regexp as an argument, and delete the matches from the receiver string. I am not sure of the method name, and I will use the term `remove` here. It can be named in some other better way. I request all combinations of global vs. local, and non-destructive vs. destructive. The expected feature is something like the following. First, the non-destructive ones:

```ruby
"abcabc".remove("c") # => "ababc"
"abcabc".remove(/\zc/) # => "abcab"
"abcabc".gremove("c") # => "abab"
"abcabc".gremove(/c/) # => "abab"
```

Then, the destructive ones:

```ruby
s = "abcabc"
s.remove!("c") # => "ababc"
s # => "ababc"

s = "abcabc"
s.gremove!("d") # => nil
s # => "abcabc"
```

Using this, cases like https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12694 would be just special cases. They can be handled like this:

```ruby
"abcdef".remove(/\Aabc/) # => "def"



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