how to safely replace all whitespaces with underscores with ruby?

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最佳答案

The docs for tr! say

Translates str in place, using the same rules as String#tr. Returns str, or nil if no changes were made.

I think you'll get the correct results if you use tr without the exclamation.

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str.downcase.tr(" ", "_")

Note: No "!"

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You can also do str.gsub(" ", "_")

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If you're interested in getting a string in snake case, then the proposed solution doesn't quite work, because you may get concatenated underscores and starting/trailing underscores.

For example

1.9.3-p0 :010 > str= "  John   Smith Beer "
=> "  John   Smith Beer "
1.9.3-p0 :011 > str.downcase.tr(" ", "_")
=> "__john___smith_beer_"

This solution below would work better:

1.9.3-p0 :010 > str= "  John   Smith Beer "
=> "  John   Smith Beer "
1.9.3-p0 :012 > str.squish.downcase.tr(" ","_")
=> "john_smith_beer"

squish is a String method provided by Rails

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str = "Foo Bar"
str.tr(' ','').underscore


=> "foo_bar"

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Pass '_' as parameter to parameterize(separator: '-'). For Rails 4 and below, use str.parameterize('_')

Examples:

with space

str = "New School"
str.parameterize(separator: '_')


=> "new_school"

without space

str = "school"
str.parameterize(separator: '_')


=> "school"

You can also solve this by chaining underscore to parameterize.

Examples:

with space

str = "New School"
str.parameterize.underscore


=> "new_school"

without space

str = "school"
str.parameterize.underscore


=> "school"

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Old question, but...

For all whitespace you probably want something more like this:

"hey\t there   world".gsub(/\s+/, '_') # hey_there_world

This gets tabs and new lines as well as spaces and replaces with a single _.

The regex can be modified to suit your needs. E.g:

"hey\t there   world".gsub(/\s/, '_') # hey__there___world

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If you are using rails 5 and above you can achieve the same thing with

str.parameterize(separator: '_')