From: jason solomon <solomon.jas@gmail.com>
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Subject: Method that mutates object
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Say we want to write a String method called clear that takes a given
string and modifies that string to be equal to "".

Ex.

str = "string"

we call str.clear and we get back "", not just "" printed to the screen,
but the value of str is now "" (mutate the original string).


I understand that the following code would just print "" to the screen
but not modify the actual str object.

class String
  def clear
    ""
  end
end


How would you write a method that actually modifies the str object?

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