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instance method
String#clear
clear → self
string.c
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static VALUE
rb_str_clear(VALUE str)
{
str_discard(str);
STR_SET_EMBED(str);
STR_SET_LEN(str, 0);
RSTRING_PTR(str)[0] = 0;
if (rb_enc_asciicompat(STR_ENC_GET(str)))
ENC_CODERANGE_SET(str, ENC_CODERANGE_7BIT);
else
ENC_CODERANGE_SET(str, ENC_CODERANGE_VALID);
return str;
}
Removes the contents of self:
Example
s = 'foo' # => "foo" s.clear # => ""