From: Kev Jackson <kevin.jackson@...>
Date: 2006-03-20T20:13:00+09:00
Subject: Re: iterate chars in a string

Robert Klemme wrote:

> Kev Jackson wrote:
>
>> Robert Klemme wrote:
>>
>>> Lyndon Samson wrote:
>>>
>>>> a="123"
>>>>
>>>> 0.upto(a.length) { |i| puts a[i..i] }
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Alternatively:
>>>
>>> a.length.times {|i| puts a[i].chr}
>>>
>>> Many roads to Rome...
>>>
>>>     robert
>>>
>> or even
>>
>> a.scan(/./) { |c| p c }
>
>
> We had that already: your version ignores newlines. :-)
>
So it does!  Well I learnt something anyway :)

a = "ook\nook\tEeek!\n"
a.scan(/.|\s/) { |c| p c }
"o"
"o"
"k"
"\n"
"o"
"o"
"k"
"\t"
"E"
"e"
"e"
"k"
"!"
"\n"

(quick fix, and now handles tabs|spaces|new lines)

Kev