From: Yossef Mendelssohn <ymendel@...>
Date: 2008-08-15T02:42:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Idiom of removing a particular character from a String?

On Aug 14, 9:21 am, "Lorenzo E. Danielsson"
<danielsson.lore...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there any particular idiom for removing a particular character from a
> string *by index* and returning the resulting string? The following
> makes my old eyes sore:
>
> rem = str.clone
> rem[i] = ""
> rem
>
> as does this:
>
> rem = str.scan(/./)
> rem.delete_at(i)
> rem.to_s
>
> It seems there should be some more idiomatic way to do this, something
> like str.annihilate_char_at_index_possibly_without_a_bang(i), read as
> String#delete_at(i) and String#delete_at!(i). Of course these methods
> don't exist, and "".methods doesn't turn up anything interesting. So
> what is a *decent* way of performing this?
>
> Lorenzo

Lorenzo,

It seems reading comprehension isn't a strong suit for ruby-talk
today.

As far as I know, there is no such method. You're probably stuck with
reopening String and adding it yourself.

--
-yossef