Ruby program to remove a specified character inside the string using gsub() method

Last Updated : December 15, 2025

Problem Solution

In this program, we will create a string and then remove the specified character inside the string using the gsub() method and return the result.

Program/Source Code

The source code to remove a specified character inside the string using the gsub() method is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

# Ruby program to remove a specified character 
# inside the string using gsub() method

str = "abcabcabc";

str = str.gsub("b", "");

print str;

Output

acacac

Explanation

In the above program, we created a string str initialized with "abcabcabc". Then we removed the specified character inside the string using the gsub() method. After that, we printed the updated string.

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