class String def naive_split(pattern) string = self.dup found = [] while position = string.index(pattern) found << string.slice!(0, position) string.slice!(0,[pattern.size,1].max) end found << string found end def tabs_to_spaces! gsub!("\t",' ' * Ruco::TAB_SIZE) end def leading_whitespace match(/^\s*/)[0] end def leading_whitespace=(whitespace) sub!(/^\s*/, whitespace) end # stub for 1.8 unless method_defined?(:force_encoding) def force_encoding(encoding) self end end unless method_defined?(:ord) def ord bytes.first end end def surrounded_in?(*words) first = words.first last = words.last slice(0,first.size) == first and slice(-last.size,last.size) == last end # https://gist.github.com/20844 # remove middle from strings exceeding max length. def ellipsize(options={}) max = options[:max] || 40 delimiter = options[:delimiter] || "..." return self if self.size <= max remainder = max - delimiter.size offset = remainder / 2 (self[0,offset + (remainder.odd? ? 1 : 0)].to_s + delimiter + self[-offset,offset].to_s)[0,max].to_s end unless defined? ellipsize end # http://grosser.it/2010/12/31/ruby-string-indexes-indices-find-all-indexes-in-a-string class String def indexes(needle) found = [] current_index = -1 while current_index = index(needle, current_index+1) found << current_index end found end end