Strings and Regular Expressions

Death, taxes, and ... processing text. Yes, these are virtually inescapable in a programmer’s life. In Ruby, I share your pain. Using the String, Regexp, and MatchData classes, Ruby provides sharp tools to slice, dice, and manipulate text to your heart’s content.

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