How to Reverse a String in Ruby

How to Reverse a String in Ruby ?

Answer

To reverse a string in Ruby, you can use the reverse method.


✐ Examples

1 Reversing "Hello World" String

In this example,

  1. We create a string named str1 with a value of "Hello World".
  2. We call the reverse method on str1.
  3. Finally, we print the reversed string.

Ruby Program

str1 = "Hello World"
reversed_str1 = str1.reverse
puts "Reversed string is: #{reversed_str1}"

Output

Reversed string is: dlroW olleH

2 Reversing "apple" String

In this example,

  1. We create a string named str2 with a value of "apple".
  2. We call the reverse method on str2.
  3. Finally, we print the reversed string.

Ruby Program

str2 = "apple"
reversed_str2 = str2.reverse
puts "Reversed string is: #{reversed_str2}"

Output

Reversed string is: elppa

Summary

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


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