String#replace

(::string other_string) -> self

replace(other_string) → self

VALUE
rb_str_replace(VALUE str, VALUE str2)
{
    str_modifiable(str);
    if (str == str2) return str;

    StringValue(str2);
    str_discard(str);
    return str_replace(str, str2);
}

Alias of #initialize_copy

Replaces the contents of self with the contents of other_string:

Example

s = 'foo'        # => "foo"
s.replace('bar') # => "bar"

See also #initialize_copy #prepend #reverse #partition also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0

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