From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2006-09-04T23:28:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Ordered contrast for String or Array

On 9/4/06, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Rick DeNatale wrote:
> > Here's one way to do it.  There are probably better ways.
>
> Nice! Good use of zip, and using #unpack for the String rendition makes
> a lot of sense and is probably the fastest way. Thanks for these good
> solutions. Beats the hek out of what I had.

Well, I was surprised when I couldn't seem to find a standard String
method for splitting a String into an array of single character
strings.

Thinking about it again, another way is

   string.scan /./

I haven't benchmarked the two though so I don't know which is faster.
I guess that's a task for the to-do list.

>
> I'm going to add these to Facets, albiet I'm going to give some thought
> to possibly better names. You'll get the credit of course and added to
> the list of Authors/Contributors if that's okay with you.

That's fine.  I don't have any advice on the names, except that
intersect is definitely a bad name, since it sounds too much like a
set operation which would have slightly different semantics.

> Thanks!
> T.
>
> P.S. Your blog seems to be down. Something about:
> SQLite3::CantOpenException in ArticlesController#index

Thanks for pointing that out.  This is the second time in a week that
Typo has gotten me. Although this time it was just a matter of
restarting it.  Maybe it's time to consider migrating to Mephisto!?!

-- 
Rick DeNatale

My blog on Ruby
http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/