Method: StringScanner#get_byte

Defined in:
strscan.c

#get_byte ⇒ Object

Scans one byte and returns it. This method is NOT multi-byte character sensitive. See also #getch.

s = StringScanner.new('ab')
s.get_byte         # => "a"
s.get_byte         # => "b"
s.get_byte         # => nil

s = StringScanner.new("\244\242")
s.get_byte         # => "\244"
s.get_byte         # => "\242"
s.get_byte         # => nil



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# File 'strscan.c', line 699

static VALUE
strscan_get_byte(VALUE self)
{
    struct strscanner *p;

    GET_SCANNER(self, p);
    CLEAR_MATCH_STATUS(p);
    if (EOS_P(p)) {
        return Qnil;
    }
    p->prev = p->curr;
    p->curr++;
    MATCHED(p);
    adjust_registers_to_matched(p);
    return extract_range(p, p->prev + p->regs.beg[0],
                            p->prev + p->regs.end[0]);
}