Am 12.03.2007 um 18:12 schrieb Richard Quadling:
>
> strip only removes leading and trailing spaces.
>
> I DO see though, that the regex version is a little nicer to read and
> I'll be see if it is faster than the string manip version I have.
>
> trim/ltrim/rtrim allow for arbitrary characters to be removed,
> removing quotes or dot, etc.
Just use gsub. I don't think adding methods like these adds too much
value here.
>
> makePlural and addCommas are both currently English (i.e. s is for
> Plural, cat/cats).
>
> You can use alternative plurals...
>
> '10'.makePlural('box', '', 'es') == 10 boxes
> '1'.makePlural('lad', 'y', 'ies') == 1 lady
> '10'.makePlural('lad', 'y', 'ies') == 1 ladies
>
> So, you can supply your own appropriate single/plural suffix.
>
> As there is no standard, even in english, I took the normal english
> version.
I can imagine some version of the Rails pluralize helper added, but
without the magic Inflector stuff Rails does.
Here's the API docs for that one:
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/
TextHelper.html#M000618
You'll notice that some of the other methods are already implemented
in Prototype.
Best,
Thomas
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