From: Tom Rathbone <tom.rathbone@...>
Date: 2005-02-03T20:46:16+09:00
Subject: Working with strings...

Hi,

Is there a function that would work over the characters in String in
the way that each works for an array?  I want to process the string
character by character and thought that #each would do this,
apparently not.  Even better would be a collect style method. 
Something like this.

"some string".collect do |x|
   x + '|'
end

>> "s|o|m|e| |s|t|r|i|n|g|"

#collect_char or #each_char  would be great.

Perhaps not the best example there, basically i intend to interpret a
string of character commands from a string  i.e. something like
Brainf**k.

Thanks,

Tom.