Chapter 11. Regular expressions and regexp-based string operations
In this chapter
- Regular expression syntax
- Pattern-matching operations
- The MatchData class
- Built-in methods based on pattern matching
In this chapter, we’ll explore Ruby’s facilities for pattern-matching and text processing, centering around the use of regular expressions. A regular expression in Ruby serves the same purposes it does in other languages: it specifies a pattern of characters, a pattern that may or may not correctly predict (that is, match) a given string. Pattern-match operations are used for conditional branching (match/no match), pinpointing substrings (parts of a string that match parts of the pattern), and various text-filtering techniques.
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