From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-05-12T18:58:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Convert integer to array?

Hi self --

On Mon, 12 May 2008, David A. Black wrote:

> Hi --
>
> On Mon, 12 May 2008, Nadim Kobeissi wrote:
>
>> Let's say I have:
>> x=1234
>> How can I convert that to the follow array:
>> x=[1, 2, 3, 4]
>
> require 'scanf'
> "1234".scanf("%1d" * 4)
> # => [1, 2, 3, 4]

"%1d" * x.size would be better (no need to hard-code the 4).


David

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