From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2007-05-09T19:56:36+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie: assign values/array to variables


On May 9, 2007, at 6:41 AM, 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"]

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

The asterisk (or 'splat') operator is the key.

Gary Wright