From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-04-05T02:42:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem Extracting Array Values

Brian Candler wrote:
> 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?
> 
For the basic types, eval will do it to a tolerable degree.  For 
everything else, there's YAML...

-- 
Alex