From: Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@...>
Date: 2007-03-16T21:24:15+09:00
Subject: Re: How to convert a String to an Array?

On 16/03/07, RubyCrazy <rubycrazy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to convert a String to an Array? I could only find the
> following -
> 'hello world'.scan(/./)
>
> Thanks.
>

irb(main):001:0> "hello world".split(//)
=> ["h", "e", "l", "l", "o", " ", "w", "o", "r", "l", "d"]

I'm not sure if this is functionally the same or if there is some kind
of performance boost using split instead of scan.

Farrel