From: Simon Conrad-Armes <curne@...> (Curne)
Date: 2005-01-11T22:35:59+09:00
Subject: Re: beginner question  conversion array <-> string


On 2005 Jan, 11, at 14:16, Christian Knoblauch wrote:

> hello all,
>
> I am trying to convert a string (s="-----boundary with some http
> stuff") to an arry to pass it to http::post as data. I need every
> character in as an extra element (like aX = ["-","-","b","o"....]

the easy way is #split

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"abc".split('')  # => [ "a", "b", "c" ]
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Can't you just write the string to the HTTP thingy, though?

//Curne

>
> I played with unpack(which looks like a good way) but no success.
>
> My last try was this loop but the characters are safed as figures and
> not as characters any more.
>
> s.each_byte do |x|
> 	aX << x
> end
>
> Thanks a lot!
> best
> Christian
>
>