From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2006-03-21T06:26:43+09:00
Subject: Re: iterate chars in a string

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Mike I really agree, I *was* expecting that behavior from "each" too, some
time ago, and it took me some time to figure it out
BTW I think the "nicest" solutions is mine combined with Robert's (pun
intended)

"Ty Mr. Klemme".each_byte { |b| puts b.chr }

my "%" stuff was rather clumsy.

bye for now
Robert

On 3/20/06, Berger, Daniel <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> wrote:
>
> > -----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
>
>


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