From: Christian Szegedy <szegedy@...>
Date: 2002-06-07T17:34:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Unflatten

Park Heesob wrote:

> 
> Simple but awful solution.
> 
> def unflatten(list)
>   eval list.inspect.gsub(/"\(",/ , '[').gsub(/"\)"/ , ']')
> end
> 
> Park Heesob.
> 
> 

Sometimes it may work, but it's quite simple to construct more
complicated cases for which it fails.

E.g.:

list = ["\"(","a"]
unflatten(list)

gives parse error.

Best regards, Christian