From: Daniel <ruby-talk@...7thfire.com>
Date: 2007-03-24T07:51:27+09:00
Subject: Re: How to Convert String to Array

On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 07:36:31AM +0900, Shengzhi Li wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> Newb question: I want to read the user input an array of numbers. Is
> this possible? If not, then I want to convert the string input (from
> gets) into an array.
> 
> For example:
> 
> user inputs [5,3,46,6,5]
> gets.chomp converts this to a string "[5,3,46,6,5]"
> I want [5,3,46,6,5] (the arrray, not the string)

a = "[5,3,46,6,5]"
a.gsub!(/[\[\]]/,'').split(/\s*,\s*/)
=> ["5", "3", "46", "6", "5"]

This removes the [] first, then splits on ,

-d