Class: String

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/charlock_holmes/string.rb

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#detect_encoding(hint_enc = nil) ⇒ Object

Attempt to detect the encoding of this string

Returns: a Hash with :encoding, :language, :type and :confidence



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# File 'lib/charlock_holmes/string.rb', line 7

def detect_encoding(hint_enc=nil)
  detector = CharlockHolmes::EncodingDetector.new
  detector.detect(self, hint_enc)
end

#detect_encoding!(hint_enc = nil) ⇒ Object

Attempt to detect the encoding of this string then set the encoding to what was detected ala ‘force_encoding`

Returns: self



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# File 'lib/charlock_holmes/string.rb', line 27

def detect_encoding!(hint_enc=nil)
  if detected = self.detect_encoding(hint_enc)
    self.force_encoding(detected[:encoding]) if detected[:encoding]
  end
  self
end

#detect_encodings(hint_enc = nil) ⇒ Object

Attempt to detect the encoding of this string, and return a list with all the possible encodings that match it.

Returns: an Array with zero or more Hashes,

each one of them with with :encoding, :language, :type and :confidence



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# File 'lib/charlock_holmes/string.rb', line 17

def detect_encodings(hint_enc=nil)
  detector = CharlockHolmes::EncodingDetector.new
  detector.detect_all(self, hint_enc)
end