MightyString

by Daniel P. Clark

Description: Add Array functionality to Strings and other tools for Strings: Matching, Indexing, Substitution, Deletion, and more.

Install: gem install mightystring

Pain points this solves.

• After working with Python, it's obvious Ruby strings are lacking... so lets spiff them up.
• Strings are Arrays... I mean really, think about it. This works toward making Strings function as Arrays.
• Also this provides additional string tools under MightyString... like parsing HTML into text.

My method.

• I believe code should be beautiful, simple, and well rounded. I've come to expect strings to be handled easily like arrays. There's no reason why not. So I've brought that reality to Ruby.

Some tools to consider here.

• MightyString::HTML.text provides a more ideal HTML to ASCII formatting output. This is an advanced block "filtering" module. It works very well with, currently, extremely rare cases that fall through it's fingers. Regardless it's beautiful, and will strive to be more so.

Advanced detail.

• Look at the test/test_ms.rb for case usages of each feature.

As a general rule I've avoided regex for this library. But due to regex's nature of design I will use it for parsing string data within MightyString::HTML . I plan to keep parsing syntax as the only exception for using regex in this library.

Follow this project and contribute via github http://www.github.com/danielpclark/mightystring

Goal for 0.3.0

Have Array and String interchangable. Same errors, same results.

NOTES: Implementing the flatten and join methods on String breaks functionality within Rails and Rubygems. Future additions will be separated into the MightyString module itself. Although a brilliant idea may indeed resolve this.