From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby.brian@...>
Date: 2005-10-29T22:50:20+09:00
Subject: Re: chain regex replacement

On 29/10/05, Brian Schr�der <ruby.brian@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29/10/05, onurturgay@gmail.com <onurturgay@gmail.com> wrote:
> > hi,
> > I want to make a chain replacement in my String object. For example
> > a => b
> > c => d
> > f => k
> >
> > etc. Is there a way to make this replacement in one regex or something
> > similar? I want to write a custom upcase downcase method, as the normal
> > one doesnt support unicode (and ruby-unicode doesnt compile on
> > windows).
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > onur
> >
> >
> >
>
> Did you look at tr
>
> "a big boy".tr("a-z", "A-Z")
> => "A BIG BOY"
>
> regards,
>
> Brian
>

or even more like your example:


> "hal".tr("za-y", "a-z")
=> "ibm"

cheers,

Brian

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