From: Georgy <see@...>
Date: 2004-06-06T03:33:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Chars in Ruby

Thank you! That's what I wanted. I didn't think split would treat '' so specially.
G-:

"Shashank Date" <sdate@everestkc.net> wrote in message news:2idv9fFlbg47U1@uni-berlin.de...
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| "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]
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|          How about:    "abc".split('').collect{|e| e[0]}
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|    Just applied the inverse transforms of what you did to get Array
|    to String ...and of course, as GR mentioned, you can pack/unpack.
|
| -- shanko
|

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