How to convert String to Lowercase in Ruby

How to convert String to Lowercase in Ruby ?

Answer

To convert a string to lowercase in Ruby, you can use the downcase method.


✐ Examples

1 Convert "Hello World" to Lowercase

In this example,

  1. Create a string variable str with the value "Hello World".
  2. Call downcase on str to convert it to lowercase.
  3. Print str.

Ruby Program

str = 'Hello World'
lowercase_str = str.downcase
puts lowercase_str

Output

hello world

2 Convert "Ruby Programming" to Lowercase

In this example,

  1. Create a string variable str with the value "Ruby Programming".
  2. Call downcase on str to convert it to lowercase.
  3. Print str.

Ruby Program

str = 'Ruby Programming'
lowercase_str = str.downcase
puts lowercase_str

Output

ruby programming

Summary

In this tutorial, we learned How to convert String to Lowercase in Ruby language with well detailed examples.


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