From: Ilan Berci <coder68@...>
Date: 2008-02-05T23:39:20+09:00
Subject: Re: got any good string exercises?

Adam Akhtar wrote:
> Looking for fairly simple string exercises that will familiarise myself
> with all those string methods in the back of pickaxe. Dont want major
> exercises like those in the ruby quiz as they demand knowledge in a lot
> of other areas.
> 
> Heres one example of the sort im looking for
> 
> Rotate the words in a string around a fixed point given by a letter. Eg.
> string = "Ruby is a great language"
> puts Rotate(string, "a")
> 
> output: "a great language ruby is"
> 
> ok that one is probably at upper end of the scale when it comes to
> difficulty but its quite focused.
> 
> Anyone got any other string practice exercises that are short,
> relatively simple and use some of the methods??


irb(main):002:0> "Ruby is a great language".reverse.split(" ").map {|w| 
w.reverse}.join " "
=> "language great a is Ruby"

:)

Best way is to just look at the string methods.. String.methods - 
Object.instance_methods

hth helps
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