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Feature #12306

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Implement String #blank? #present? and improve #strip and family to handle unicode

Added by sam.saffron (Sam Saffron) almost 8 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

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Target version:
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[ruby-core:75053]

Description

Time and again there have been rejected feature requests to Ruby core to implement blank and present protocols across all objects as ActiveSupport does. I am fine with this call and think it is fair.

However, for the narrow case of String having #blank? and #present? makes sense.

  • Provides a natural extension over #strip, #lstrip and #rstrip. (" ".strip.length == 0) == " ".blank?

  • Plays nicely with ActiveSupport, providing an efficient implementation in Ruby core: see: https://github.com/SamSaffron/fast_blank, implementing blank efficiently requires a c extension.

However, if this work is to be done, #strip and should probably start dealing with unicode blanks, eg:

irb(main):008:0> [0x3000].pack("U")
=> " "
irb(main):009:0> [0x3000].pack("U").strip.length
=> 1

So there are 2 questions / feature requests here

  1. Can we add blank? and present? to String?
  2. Can we amend strip and family to account for unicode per: https://github.com/SamSaffron/fast_blank/blob/master/ext/fast_blank/fast_blank.c#L43-L74

Related issues 3 (2 open1 closed)

Related to Ruby master - Feature #8110: Regex methods not changing global variablesClosedmatz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)Actions
Related to Ruby master - Feature #12403: Optimise Regexp#match?OpenActions
Is duplicate of Ruby master - Feature #8206: Should Ruby core implement String#blank? OpenActions
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