[ruby-core:78339] [Ruby trunk Feature#12698][Feedback] Method to delete a substring by regex match
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Date:
2016-11-25 09:08:40 UTC
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Issue #12698 has been updated by Yukihiro Matsumoto.
Status changed from Open to Feedback
I don't think it's worth adding which is easily done by `sub/gsub`.
Matz.
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Feature #12698: Method to delete a substring by regex match
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12698#change-61703
* Author: Tsuyoshi Sawada
* Status: Feedback
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee:
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There is frequent need to delete a substring from a string. There already are methods `String#delete` and `String#delete!`, but their feature is a little bit different from the use cases that I am mentioning here.
I request methods that take a string or a regexp as an argument, and delete the matches from the receiver string. I am not sure of the method name, and I will use the term `remove` here. It can be named in some other better way. I request all combinations of global vs. local, and non-destructive vs. destructive. The expected feature is something like the following. First, the non-destructive ones:
```ruby
"abcabc".remove("c") # => "ababc"
"abcabc".remove(/\zc/) # => "abcab"
"abcabc".gremove("c") # => "abab"
"abcabc".gremove(/c/) # => "abab"
```
Then, the destructive ones:
```ruby
s = "abcabc"
s.remove!("c") # => "ababc"
s # => "ababc"
s = "abcabc"
s.gremove!("d") # => nil
s # => "abcabc"
```
Using this, cases like https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12694 would be just special cases. They can be handled like this:
```ruby
"abcdef".remove(/\Aabc/) # => "def"
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