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Exclamation marks and question marks on ruby method names
In ruby, you'll find some function/method names that are just a series of letters (a rather conventional sort of name for a function or a variable), and others that have a ! or ? on the end. What's the significance of these? • A function with a ! on the end usually alters the incoming object rather than returning a new object • A function with a ? on the end usually return a true or false value so would be used in a conditional • A function with neither a ? nor a ! usually returns a new object. Here's an example with chop ... This will not alter stuff, but will return you a result object in less: less = stuff.chopwhereas this will alter the stuff object: stuff.chop!There's a further example [here] - including sample output (written 2010-07-28, updated 2010-07-30) Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles R106 - Input and Output in Ruby[1587] Some Ruby programming examples from our course - (2008-03-21) [1887] Ruby Programming Course - Saturday and Sunday - (2008-11-16) [2290] Opening and reading files - the ruby fundamentals - (2009-07-16) [2614] Neatly formatting results into a table - (2010-02-01) [2621] Ruby collections and strings - some new examples - (2010-02-03) [2974] Formatting your output - options available in Ruby - (2010-09-29) [3429] Searching through all the files in or below a directory - Ruby, Tcl, Perl - (2011-09-09) [4499] Significant work - beyond helloworld in Ruby - (2015-05-27) [4678] Expect with Ruby - a training example to get you started - (2016-05-18)
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