From: Mike Dvorkin <mike@...>
Date: 2006-10-18T10:12:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Seems so simple, but is this really the only way, or most direct way?

id.unpack('c' * id.size).map { |x| x-48 } # without regex and to_i  
conversions

Mike Dvorkin
http://www.rubywizards.com


On Oct 17, 2006, at 5:36 PM, John Pywtorak wrote:

> 9 digits in a string "123456789", convert to individual Fixnums  
> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9], or as below
>
> a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i = id.scan(/\d/).map(&:to_i)
>
> Simpler yet how about ["1", "2", ...]. Is scan the only direct way?
>
> I tried the "*" mechanism, no such luck, and tried array slicing  
> again no luck.  TIA
> -- 
> John Pywtorak
> Cal Poly State University
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> 805-756-5906
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