Greetings! In this lesson, we’ll explore Ruby’s string methods: 'split', 'join', 'strip', and how to perform type conversions.

Ruby’s robust built-in string methods simplify text processing, enhancing both the readability and efficiency of our code.

Constructing strings frequently entails dividing them into smaller sections or tokens. The split method in Ruby achieves this goal by breaking a string into an array of substrings using a specified delimiter. If no delimiter is provided, it splits the string by whitespace.

In the example above, we observe that split divides the sentence into individual words. Alternatively, you can provide a custom delimiter, such as a comma:

This approach is helpful when parsing CSV-like data into individual fields.

Ruby’s join method is the opposite of split. It combines an array of strings into a single string, separated by a specified delimiter.