From: Daniel <ruby-talk@...7thfire.com>
Date: 2007-03-24T08:03:42+09:00
Subject: Re: How to Convert String to Array


On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 07:51:27AM +0900, Daniel wrote:
> 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 ,

missed the collect as mentioned in the other response.

> 
> -d

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