From: dblack@...
Date: 2007-05-09T19:55:24+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie: assign values/array to variables

Hi --

On Wed, 9 May 2007, Mark V wrote:

> Hi,
> Thanks for all the fantastic work that has gone into ruby.  Even
> though I am new it has proved to be very impressive.
> To my question.
> I've seen the following code:
>
> @vara, @varb = "ab,ac,ad,ae".split(",")
>
> the way @vara and @varb were used makes me think the writer expected
> the following:
>
> puts @vara.inspect # "ab"
> puts @varb.inspect #  ["ac", "ad", "ae"]
>
> However when I run this code I get
>
> puts @vara.inspect # "ab"
> puts @varb.inspect # "ac"
>
> Is there a way to achieve the writer seemed to have in mind?

Yes:

   @vara, *@varb = "ab,ac,ad,ae".split(",")


David

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