How to sort a string in ruby?

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How to sort a string's characters alphabetically?

Assuming there is a simple string str = "bacd" I want to sort it so that the result contains result = "abcd"

How do I do this in Ruby?

score 10 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 07 '12 at 17:40

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Tokland's comment is so nice it deserves to be a full-fledged answer:

str.chars.sort.join

This works in Ruby 1.8 and 1.9.

You can find the Ruby Doc here.

edited Mar 07 '12 at 17:40

DaveShaw

answered Mar 07 '12 at 12:08

Mark Thomas

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 07 '12 at 11:54

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Nice and simple:

str = 'bacd'
p str.split('').sort.join # => "abcd"

answered Mar 07 '12 at 11:54

Jakobinsky

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