From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-04-05T02:34:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem Extracting Array Values

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 01:05:44AM +0900, Dustin Anderson wrote:
> 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"]

I always thought that Object#inspect could be considered as a (crude) form
of object serialisation, and it would be really useful to have a reverse
"uninspect" operation to recreate the object from it again. Has anyone
written such a parser?