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authorBurdette Lamar <BurdetteLamar@Yahoo.com>2025-10-21 15:48:11 -0500
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2025-10-21 16:48:11 -0400
commitcb52809ca124cb627293a666e8cbb44e031eeec1 (patch)
treefe3453544c03c9dc4eeca78060b25e2c5a33226e /doc
parent862b42a52cd59ca406db40cf47e98fa107c97fd1 (diff)
[DOC] Tweaks for String#scrub (#14892)
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-rw-r--r--doc/string/scrub.rdoc27
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/doc/string/scrub.rdoc b/doc/string/scrub.rdoc
index 1a5b1c79d0..5ace376cdb 100644
--- a/doc/string/scrub.rdoc
+++ b/doc/string/scrub.rdoc
@@ -1,25 +1,22 @@
Returns a copy of +self+ with each invalid byte sequence replaced
by the given +replacement_string+.
-With no block given and no argument, replaces each invalid sequence
-with the default replacement string
-(<tt>"�"</tt> for a Unicode encoding, <tt>'?'</tt> otherwise):
+With no block given, replaces each invalid sequence
+with the given +default_replacement_string+
+(by default, <tt>"�"</tt> for a Unicode encoding, <tt>'?'</tt> otherwise):
- s = "foo\x81\x81bar"
- s.scrub # => "foo��bar"
+ "foo\x81\x81bar"scrub # => "foo��bar"
+ "foo\x81\x81bar".force_encoding('US-ASCII').scrub # => "foo??bar"
+ "foo\x81\x81bar".scrub('xyzzy') # => "fooxyzzyxyzzybar"
-With no block given and argument +replacement_string+ given,
-replaces each invalid sequence with that string:
+With a block given, calls the block with each invalid sequence,
+and replaces that sequence with the return value of the block:
- "foo\x81\x81bar".scrub('xyzzy') # => "fooxyzzyxyzzybar"
+ "foo\x81\x81bar".scrub {|sequence| p sequence; 'XYZZY' } # => "fooXYZZYXYZZYbar"
-With a block given, replaces each invalid sequence with the value
-of the block:
-
- "foo\x81\x81bar".scrub {|bytes| p bytes; 'XYZZY' }
- # => "fooXYZZYXYZZYbar"
-
-Output:
+Output :
"\x81"
"\x81"
+
+Related: see {Converting to New String}[rdoc-ref:String@Converting+to+New+String].