From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-03-21T04:51:32+09:00
Subject: Re: iterate chars in a string

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Austin [mailto:noone@nowhere.com] 
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 12:39 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: iterate chars in a string
> 
> 
> "I am puzzled".each_byte { |b| puts b.chr }
> 
> I'm surprised that not many people knew about 'each_byte()'.  
> Maybe it's a 
> problem with Ruby docs?  Or maybe it is just 
> counter-intuitive - I would expect 
> each() iterate over bytes, and provide each_lines() to 
> iterate over lines instead.
> 
> Mike
> 
> http://www.rubycentral.com/ref/

Modifying String#to_a to return an array of characters has been brought
up before (ruby-talk:148588 and following).  I don't think Matz likes
the idea, though.

Dan