From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2004-06-05T22:18:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Chars in Ruby


"Georgy" <see@the.end> wrote in message
> Array to String:    [97,98,99].map{|e|e.chr}.join --> "abc"
> String to Array:    "abc" ????????????? --> [97,98,99]

         How about:    "abc".split('').collect{|e| e[0]}

   Just applied the inverse transforms of what you did to get Array
   to String ...and of course, as GR mentioned, you can pack/unpack.

> E#Mail: 'naabbcaDaddaLryDwksvKmyw'.tr('a-zA-Z','0-9a-z.@')
>
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-- shanko