From: Phrogz <phrogz@...>
Date: 2009-10-27T11:35:08+09:00
Subject: Re: array question

On Oct 26, 6:46 pm, "David A. Black" <dbl...@rubypal.com> wrote:
> > need to separate strings into arrays for a program that I am making.
> > For example, if I have the string 'abc', I'll want to make it into the
> > array ['a', 'b', 'c'].  Is there any way to do this?  I am using version
> > 1.8.6, by the way.  All help is welcome.
>
> The method you want is String#split:
>
>    'abc'.split(//)  # => ['a', 'b', 'c']


Here are two other techniques, just for fun:

all_characters = "abc".scan(/./)

all_characters=[]
"abc".each_char{ |x| all_characters.push(x) }