From: Ammar Ali <ammarabuali@...>
Date: 2010-11-05T01:50:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Splitting a string into characters - not bytes

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Adam Prescott <mentionuse@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you want the array you can do str.chars.to_a.

It's worth noting that String#chars is not available in all versions of ruby:

>> RUBY_VERSION
=> "1.9.2"
>> "str".chars
=> #<Enumerator: "str":chars>

>> RUBY_VERSION
=> "1.8.7"
>> "str".chars
=> #<Enumerable::Enumerator:0x3e3a0>

>> RUBY_VERSION
=> "1.8.6"
>> "str".chars
NoMethodError: undefined method `chars' for "str":String
        from (irb):2

Regards,
Ammar