From: benjohn@...
Date: 2006-10-18T21:47:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Seems so simple, but is this really the only way,      or most direct way?

> 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

(1..9).to_a

?

I'm not quite sure what you are trying to do, you see :) Are you trying
to actaully set variables? If you are, first I'd ask "why are you trying
to set a range of instance variables". After that, if you're sure you do
(and hell, "for fun" is an answer), then I'm sure that there is a method
like instance_variable_set, only for manipulating local variables, but
oddly, I don't seem able to find it at the moment...