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Ruby Ruby Basics (Retired) Ruby Strings String Methods

Posted by Autumn Williams
Autumn Williams
949 Points

variable that would make characters in string lowercase

quiz asks for the method that would make the characters in a string reverse then lowercase. My answer was (after existing variable.) reverse.downcase

Thomas Tilton-Heylin
Thomas Tilton-Heylin
12,098 Points
Thomas Tilton-Heylin
Thomas Tilton-Heylin
12,098 Points

try

variable = variable.reverse.downcase

this reassign the variable to downcase & reverse and aids when used in "branching" (if / case methods)