Strings
字符串
Ruby deals with strings as well as numerical data. A string may be double-quoted ("...") or single-quoted ('...').
Ruby处理字符串就同处理数值数据一样优秀。定义字符串可以用双引号或者单引号。
ruby> "abc"
"abc"
ruby> 'abc'
"abc"
Double- and single-quoting have different effects in some cases. A double-quoted string allows character escapes by a leading backslash, and the evaluation of embedded expressions using #{}. A single-quoted string does not do this interpreting; what you see is what you get. Examples:
在某些场景中,双引号和单引号会产生不同的结果。双引号字符串允许通过反斜线对字符进行转义,以及对使用#{}
嵌入的表达式进行求值。单引号字符串则不对这些进行解释,你所看到的便是其最终的结果。比如:
ruby> puts "a\nb\nc"
a
b
c
nil
ruby> puts 'a\nb\n'
a\nb\nc
nil
ruby> "\n"
"\n"
ruby> '\n'
"\\n"
ruby> "\001"
"\t"
ruby> '\001'
"\001"
ruby> "abcd #{5*3} efg"
"abcd 15 efg"
ruby> var = " abc "
" abc "
ruby> "1234#{var}5678"
"1234 abc 5678"
Ruby's string handling is smarter and more intuitive than C's. For instance, you can concatenate strings with +, and repeat a string many times with *:
Ruby的字符串处理比C语言更智能,更直观。举个例子,你可以使用+
把字符串连接起来,或者使用*
将字符串重复多次。
ruby> "foo" + "bar"
"foobar"
ruby> "foo" * 2
"foofoo"
Concatenating strings is much more awkward in C because of the need for explicit memory management:
在C语言中连接字符串要显得更笨拙,因为它需要显式地进行内存管理:
char *s = malloc(strlen(s1)+strlen(s2)+1);
strcpy(s, s1);
strcat(s, s2);
/* ... */
free(s);
But using ruby, we do not have to consider the space occupied by a string. We are free from all memory management.
但是如果使用的是Ruby,我们则不需要考虑字符串占用的空间,由此从所有的内存管理工作中解放出来。
Here are some things you can do with strings.
这里有一些你可以用字符串完成的事情。
Concatenation:
连接:
ruby> word = "fo" + "o"
"foo"
Repetition:
重复:
ruby> word = word * 2
"foofoo"
Extracting characters (note that characters are integers in ruby):
取出字符(注意在Ruby中字符是整数):
ruby> word[0]
102 # 102是`f'的ASCII码
ruby> word[-1]
111 # 111是`o'的ASCII码
(Negative indices mean offsets from the end of a string, rather than the beginning.)
(负数的索引则表示从字符串末尾开始计算的偏移量,而不是从头开始计算。)
Extracting substrings:
取出子字符串:
ruby> herb = "parsley"
"parsley"
ruby> herb[0,1]
"p"
ruby> herb[-2,2]
"ey"
ruby> herb[0..3]
"pars"
ruby> herb[-5..-2]
"rsle"
Testing for equality:
ruby> "foo" == "foo"
true
ruby> "foo" == "bar"
false
Now, let's put some of these features to use. This puzzle is "guess the word," but perhaps the word "puzzle" is too dignified for what is to follow ;-)
现在,让我们来使用一些这些特性。这个谜题是“猜单词”,但也许“谜”这个词太过凝重,不适合接下来的内容;-)
words = ['foobar', 'baz', 'quux']
secret = words[rand(3)]
print "guess? "
while guess = STDIN.gets
guess.chop!
if guess == secret
puts "You win!"
break
else
puts "Sorry, you lose."
end
print "guess? "
end
puts "The word was ", secret, "."
For now, don't worry too much about the details of this code. Here is what a run of the puzzle program looks like.
现在,不要太担心这段代码的细节。下面是这个谜题程序的运行情况。
ruby guess.rb
guess? foobar
Sorry, you lose.
guess? quux
Sorry, you lose.
guess? ^D
The word was baz.
(I should have done a bit better, considering the 1/3 probability of success.)
(考虑到1/3的成功概率,我应该可以做得更好一些。)