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I'm using ruby on rails and I want to display only first word of string.
My broken code: <%= @user.name %> displaying Barack Obama.
I would want to have it display Barack and in other place Obama.
How can I split it and display it?
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In Ruby, we can use the built-in chr method to access the first character of a string. Similarly, we can also use the subscript syntax [0] to get the first character of a string.
A substring is a smaller part of a string, it's useful if you only want that specific part, like the beginning, middle, or end. How do you get a substring in Ruby? One way is to use a starting index & a number of characters, inside square brackets, separated by commas.
The general syntax for using the split method is string. split() . The place at which to split the string is specified as an argument to the method. The split substrings will be returned together in an array.
split is a String class method in Ruby which is used to split the given string into an array of substrings based on a pattern specified. Here the pattern can be a Regular Expression or a string. If pattern is a Regular Expression or a string, str is divided where the pattern matches.
> "this is ruby".split.first #=> "this" Short and readable:
name = "Obama Barack Hussein" puts "#{name.partition(" ").first} - #{name.partition(" ").last}" # Obama - Barack Hussein and if the order of the first and lastname is reversed
name = "Barack Hussein Obama" puts "#{name.rpartition(" ").last} - #{name.rpartition(" ").first}" # Obama - Barack Hussein If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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