From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-10-25T17:29:06+09:00
Subject: Re: [rcr] String#first / String#last


"trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@runbox.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:200410250001.59113.transami@runbox.com...
> On Sunday 24 October 2004 11:54 pm, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> | Hi,
> |
> | In message "Re: [rcr] String#first / String#last"
> |
> |     on Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:18:51 +0900, Hal Fulton
> <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:
> | |I think I'd be opposed to that. But adding a to_a might be good -- I
> | |frequently do a gratuitous split operation for that purpose.
> |
> | It already has "to_a" which works line-wise.  Perhaps something called
> | "explode" in other language is what you want.
>
> Believe their is an RCR for #chars
>
>   def chars
>     split(//)
>   end

This does not yield characters but strings with length 1.  Note also that
there is String#each_byte which is often sufficient.

Kind regards

    robert