From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-04-05T01:11:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem Extracting Array Values

On Apr 4, 2007, at 11:05 AM, Dustin Anderson wrote:

> unknown wrote:
>> On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Dustin Anderson wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Chris, ilan, Ryan for the help... You got it exactly correct.
>>> into my javascript.  Otherwise, I'll need a helper to construct the
>>> string to look like this.
>>
>> not really
>>
>>    values = ["block1_name", "block2_name", "block3_name"]
>>
>>    javascript = "value = #{ values.inspect }"
>>
>> fyi.
>>
>> -a
>
> is there a simple way in ruby to build an array from a string like  
> this:
>
> block1,block2,block3 to an array that is like this:
>
> ["block1", "block2", "block3"]

Sure:

 >> "block1,block2,block3".split(",")
=> ["block1", "block2", "block3"]

James Edward Gray II