From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-03-28T01:29:42+09:00
Subject: Re: adding anotehr each method to String

On 3/26/07, Phrogz <gavin@refinery.com> wrote:
> On Mar 26, 4:53 pm, "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 3/25/07, Une B�vue <unbewusst.s...@wortanschahung.com.invalid> wrote:
> > > s='toto'
> > > s.to_a
> > > # => ['toto']
> >
> > This is because in Ruby a String doesn't act as a collection of
> > characters, it acts as a collection of lines.
> >
> > s = "to\nto"
> > s.to_a => ["to\n", "to"]
>
> To be pedantic, it's not really a collection of lines. It's a
> collection of stuff-terminated-by-some-arbitrary-character-sequence.
> The global variable $/ holds this special string

I think that a better name for
"stuff-terminated-by-some-arbitrary-character-sequence" would be
record. At least the 'english' library seems to think so since it
aliases $RS and $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR to $/

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Rick DeNatale

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