Ruby program to replace text inside the string using gsub() method

Last Updated : December 15, 2025

Problem Solution

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

Program/Source Code

The source code to replace text inside the string using the gsub() method is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

# Ruby program to replace text inside 
# the string using gsub() method

str = "I am a great person.";

str = str.gsub("great", "good");

print str;

Output

I am a good person.

Explanation

In the above program, we created a string str initialized with "I am a great person.". Then we replaced the text inside the string using the gsub() method. After that, we printed the updated string.

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