From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-05-09T20:13:49+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie: assign values/array to variables

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:41:05PM +0900, Mark V wrote:
> 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?

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