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Ruby

Posted by soufiane bennaiym
soufiane bennaiym
Courses Plus Student 217 Points

sinatra

hi, possible modus operandi of this code in the sinatra : str.squish.downcase.tr(" ","_")

1 Answer

Adam Robertson
Adam Robertson
3,294 Points
Adam Robertson
Adam Robertson
3,294 Points

It looks like it's attempting to underscorize the string. squish trims whitespace from the ends of the string, and replaces all multiple whitespace characters with a single one. downcase will make the string lowercase. tr will replace the character " " with the character "_". This isn't a great implementation of underscorizing, however, because it won't remove characters that aren't a-zA-Z, if that was the intention.