Ruby Cookbook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carlson, Lucas.

Contributor:

Richardson, Leonard.

Series:

Cookbooks (O'Reilly)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Object-oriented programming (Computer science).

Ruby (Computer program language).

Local Subjects:

Object-oriented programming (Computer science).

Ruby (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (908 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Sebastopol : O'Reilly Media, 2006.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Do you want to push Ruby to its limits? The Ruby Cookbook is the most comprehensive problem-solving guide to today's hottest programming language. It gives you hundreds of solutions to real-world problems, with clear explanations and thousands of lines of code you can use in your own projects. From data structures and algorithms, to integration with cutting-edge technologies, the Ruby Cookbook has something for every programmer. Beginners and advanced Rubyists alike will learn how to program with: Strings and numbers Arrays and hashes

Contents:

Table of Contents; Preface; Life Is Short; Audience; The Structure of This Book; How the Code Listings Work; Installing the Software; Platform Differences, Version Differences, andOtherHeadaches; Other Resources; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Comments and Questions; Acknowledgments; Strings; 1.1 Building a String from Parts; Problem; Solution; Discussion; 1.2 Substituting Variables into Strings; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.3 Substituting Variables into an Existing String; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also

1.4 Reversing a String by Words or CharactersProblem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.5 Representing Unprintable Characters; Problem; Solution; Discussion; 1.6 Converting Between Characters and Values; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.7 Converting Between Strings and Symbols; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.8 Processing a String One Character at a Time; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.9 Processing a String One Word at a Time; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.10 Changing the Case of a String; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also

1.11 Managing WhitespaceProblem; Solution; Discussion; 1.12 Testing Whether an Object Is String-Like; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.13 Getting the Parts of a String You Want; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.14 Handling International Encodings; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.15 Word-Wrapping Lines of Text; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.16 Generating a Succession of Strings; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.17 Matching Strings with Regular Expressions; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also

1.18 Replacing Multiple Patterns in a Single PassProblem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 1.19 Validating an Email Address; Problem; Solution; Discussion; Check validity, not correctness; See Also; 1.20 Classifying Text with a Bayesian Analyzer; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; Numbers; 2.1 Parsing a Number from a String; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 2.2 Comparing Floating-Point Numbers; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 2.3 Representing Numbers to Arbitrary Precision; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 2.4 Representing Rational Numbers; Problem; Solution

DiscussionSee Also; 2.5 Generating Random Numbers; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 2.6 Converting Between Numeric Bases; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 2.7 Taking Logarithms; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 2.8 Finding Mean, Median, and Mode; Problem; Solution; Discussion; The standard deviation; See Also; 2.9 Converting Between Degrees and Radians; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 2.10 Multiplying Matrices; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 2.11 Solving a System of Linear Equations; Problem; Solution; Discussion; See Also; 2.12 Using Complex Numbers

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ISBN:

9781306815154

1306815150

9780596529291

0596529295

OCLC:

74459552