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Feature #12744

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Add str.reverse_each_char and str.reverse_chars

Added by bouk (Bouke van der Bijl) over 7 years ago. Updated over 7 years ago.

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[ruby-core:77230]

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This patch adds str.reverse_each and str.reverse_chars. It's currently not really possible to iterate a Ruby string in reverse while guaranteeing that you're not accidentally introducing an O(N^2) bug, without encoding to a fixed-length encoding like UTF-32. This is because variable-length encodings like UTF-8 requiring iterating over the whole string if you want to address characters by index.

The patch uses rb_enc_left_char_head to iterate over the string in reverse, so you can do so without allocating more memory.


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add-reverse-string-iteration.patch (5.91 KB) add-reverse-string-iteration.patch Patch bouk (Bouke van der Bijl), 09/09/2016 03:36 PM
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