Method of the Month (MOTM) for the Columbus Ruby Brigade (CRB, ColumbusRB).

1. SHELLWORDS
Ruby Method/Module of the Month
Kevin Munc - @muncman

2. WHAT IS IT?
“This module manipulates strings according to the word
parsing rules of the UNIX Bourne shell.”
(http://www.ruby-doc.org/ruby-1.9/classes/Shellwords.html)
Conforms to POSIX / SUSv3 (IEEE Std 1003.1-2001)
Built on String#scan
require ‘shellwords’

3. SHELLWORDS
my_string = "one-two three_four fiveSix seven eight 'nine
ten'"

4. SHELLWORDS
my_string = "one-two three_four fiveSix seven eight 'nine
ten'"
Shellwords.shellwords(my_string)

5. SHELLWORDS
my_string = "one-two three_four fiveSix seven eight 'nine
ten'"
Shellwords.shellwords(my_string)
==> ["one-two", "three_four", "fiveSix", "seven", "eight", "nine
ten"]

6. SHELLSPLIT
my_string = "one-two three_four fiveSix seven eight 'nine
ten'"

7. SHELLSPLIT
my_string = "one-two three_four fiveSix seven eight 'nine
ten'"
Shellwords.shellsplit(my_string)

8. SHELLSPLIT
my_string = "one-two three_four fiveSix seven eight 'nine
ten'"
Shellwords.shellsplit(my_string)
==> ["one-two", "three_four", "fiveSix", "seven", "eight", "nine
ten"] # same as shellwords

9. SHELLSPLIT
my_string = "one-two three_four fiveSix seven eight 'nine
ten'"
Shellwords.shellsplit(my_string)
==> ["one-two", "three_four", "fiveSix", "seven", "eight", "nine
ten"] # same as shellwords
Shellwords.split(my_string) # alias

10. SHELLESCAPE
my_string = "one-two three_four fiveSix seven eight 'nine
ten'"

11. SHELLESCAPE
my_string = "one-two three_four fiveSix seven eight 'nine
ten'"
Shellwords.shellescape(my_string)

12. SHELLESCAPE
my_string = "one-two three_four fiveSix seven eight 'nine
ten'"
Shellwords.shellescape(my_string)
==> "one-two three_four fiveSix seven eight
'nine ten'"

13. SHELLESCAPE
my_string = "one-two three_four fiveSix seven eight 'nine
ten'"
Shellwords.shellescape(my_string)
==> "one-two three_four fiveSix seven eight
'nine ten'"
Shellwords.escape(my_string) # alias

14. SHELLJOIN
my_array = Shellwords.shellwords(my_string)

15. SHELLJOIN
my_array = Shellwords.shellwords(my_string)
==> ["one-two", "three_four", "fiveSix", "seven", "eight", "nine
ten"]

16. SHELLJOIN
my_array = Shellwords.shellwords(my_string)
==> ["one-two", "three_four", "fiveSix", "seven", "eight", "nine
ten"]
Shellwords.shelljoin(my_array)

17. SHELLJOIN
my_array = Shellwords.shellwords(my_string)
==> ["one-two", "three_four", "fiveSix", "seven", "eight", "nine
ten"]
Shellwords.shelljoin(my_array)
==> "one-two three_four fiveSix seven eight nine ten"

18. SHELLJOIN
my_array = Shellwords.shellwords(my_string)
==> ["one-two", "three_four", "fiveSix", "seven", "eight", "nine
ten"]
Shellwords.shelljoin(my_array)
==> "one-two three_four fiveSix seven eight nine ten"
Shellwords.join(my_array) # alias

19. STRING & ARRAY
SHORTHAND

20. STRING & ARRAY
SHORTHAND
my_string.shellsplit

21. STRING & ARRAY
SHORTHAND
my_string.shellsplit
my_string.shellescape

22. STRING & ARRAY
SHORTHAND
my_string.shellsplit
my_string.shellescape
my_array.shelljoin

23. STRING & ARRAY
SHORTHAND
my_string.shellsplit
my_string.shellescape
my_array.shelljoin
my_string.shellwords # nope

24. STRING & ARRAY
SHORTHAND
my_string.shellsplit
my_string.shellescape
my_array.shelljoin
my_string.shellwords # nope
# no shorthand method names, either

25. QUESTIONS? Photo Credits:
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