What is the gsub method in Ruby?
In Ruby, the gusb method replaces all occurrences of a pattern with a given replacement and returns the copy of the string. For example, if we want to replace all the vowels in a string with asterisks, the result will be as follows:
Syntax
The gsub method is declared as follows:
Parameters
The gsub method takes two parameters:
-
pattern: This is the substring/character set that will be removed. -
replacement: This is the character(s) that will be substituted for the characters to be removed.
The
patternis typically a. Regexpa Regexp holds a regular expression, used to match a pattern against strings
Return value
The gsub method returns the copy of the string which contains the replacement substituted with the pattern.
Example
The code below shows the use of the gsub method in Ruby. The first example returns the copy of the string with its vowels replaced with asterisks. The second example substitutes the pattern with <> as a replacement:
# Example 1puts "Hello".gsub(/[aeiou]/, "*")# Example 2puts "Good Morning".gsub(/[ning]/,"<>")
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