I'm trying to figure out how to replace a word in a string with a user string.
The user would be prompted to type which word they would like to replace, and then they would be again prompted to enter the new word.
For example the starting string would be "Hello, World." User would input "World" then they would input "Ruby" Finally, "Hello, Ruby." would print out.
So far Ive tried using gsub and the [] method neither worked. Any thoughts?
Here's my function so far:
def subString(string)
sentence = string
print"=========================\n"
print sentence
print "\n"
print "Enter the word you want to replace: "
replaceWord = gets
print "Enter what you want the new word to be: "
newWord = gets
sentence[replaceWord] = [newWord]
print sentence
#newString = sentence.gsub(replaceWord, newWord)
#newString = sentence.gsub("World", "Ruby")
#print newString
end
The problem is gets also grabs the new line when a user inputs, so you want to strip that off. I made this silly test case in the console
sentence = "hello world"
replace_with = gets # put in hello
replace_with.strip!
sentence.gsub!(replace_with, 'butt')
puts sentence # prints 'butt world'