From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2008-08-15T11:56:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Idiom of removing a particular character from a String?

On Thursday 14 August 2008 11:59:51 Lorenzo E. Danielsson wrote:

> So:
> str = "hello"
> rem = str.clone
> rem[2,1] = ""  # => "helo"
> rem

For what it's worth, I've been using Object#tap (1.8.7 or higher) in 
situations like these:

str = "hello"
str.clone.tap { |rem|
  rem[2,1] = ''
}

Ordinarily, I wouldn't mention it, but you were asking for idiomatic things, 
and I like that idiom.