From: djberg96@... (Daniel Berger)
Date: 2004-10-26T00:24:09+09:00
Subject: Re: [rcr] String#first / String#last

"Robert Klemme" <bob.news@gmx.net> wrote in message news:<2u3rh2F22mbfkU1@uni-berlin.de>...
> "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

I prefer String#unpack("C*").  I'm not sure what encoding issues there
are with that, however.

Dan