Class String
In: lib/rir/string.rb
Parent: Object

Extention of the standard class String with useful function.

Methods

extract_xmltags_values   is_stopword?   remove_special_characters   strip_javascripts   strip_javascripts!   strip_punctuation   strip_punctuation!   strip_stylesheets   strip_stylesheets!   strip_xml_tags   strip_xml_tags!  

Included Modules

RIR

Public Instance methods

extract_xmltags_values(tag_name)

Returns the text values inside all occurences of a XML tag in self 

  s = "four-piece in <a href='#'>Indianapolis</a>, <a href='#'>Indiana</a> at the Murat Theatre"
  s.extract_xmltags_values 'a' #=> ["Indianapolis", "Indiana"]
is_stopword?()

Returns true if self belongs to Rir::Stoplist, false otherwise.

remove_special_characters()

Do not use. TODO: rewamp. find why this function is here.

strip_javascripts()

Removes all Javascript sources from self. 

  s = "<script type='text/javascript'>
        var skin='vector',
        stylepath='http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5'
       </script>

       test"
  s.strip_javascripts                   #=> "test"
strip_javascripts!()

Removes all Javascript sources from self. 

  s = "<script type='text/javascript'>
        var skin='vector',
        stylepath='http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5'
       </script>

       test"
  s.strip_javascripts!
  s                                     #=> "test"
strip_punctuation()

Removes punctuation from self. 

  s = "hello, world. how are you?!"
  s.strip_punctuation               # => "hello world how are you"
strip_punctuation!()

Removes punctuation from self. 

  s = "hello, world. how are you?!"
  s.strip_punctuation!
  s                                 # => "hello world how are you"
strip_xml_tags()

Removes all XML-like tags from self. 

  s = "<html><body>test</body></html>"
  s.strip_xml_tags                      #=> "test"
  s                                     #=> "<html><body>test</body></html>"
strip_xml_tags!()

Removes all XML-like tags from self. 

  s = "<html><body>test</body></html>"
  s.strip_xml_tags!
  s                                     #=> "test"

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