From: Jim McKerchar <jim.mckerchar@...>
Date: 2008-12-10T23:44:38+09:00
Subject: Re: chars method

Thanks James. I hadn't thought of that :)

James Gray wrote:
> On Dec 10, 2008, at 7:44 AM, Jim McKerchar wrote:
>
>> George. If you're not yet ready to move up to a newer version of 
>> Ruby, you could always add a chars method to String.....
>>
>> class String
>>      def chars
>>            self.split( "" )
>>      end
>> end
>>
>> "abcde".chars
>> => ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e"]
>
> Note that your method would probably be better named as bytes() 
> instead of chars():
>
>   $ ruby -e 'p "r�sum�".split("")'
>   ["r", "\303", "\251", "s", "u", "m", "\303", "\251"]
>
> If you wanted to support UTF-8 characters, you could replace split("") 
> with scan(/./mu):
>
>   $ ruby -KUe 'p "r�sum�".scan(/./mu)'
>   ["r", "�", "s", "u", "m", "�"]
>
> I've written about this on my blog quite a bit, if you are interested:
>
>   http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/understanding_m17n
>
> James Edward Gray II
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