From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-07-05T11:09:33+09:00
Subject: Re: is there a better string.each?

Hi --

On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Dossy wrote:

> On 2002.07.05, Tyler Spivey <tspivey8@telus.net> wrote:
> > well, i have a bit of a problem:
> > a="canada"
> > a.each |i|
> > do something
> > end
> > and, it doesn't loop over all the characters. is this normal? if so,
> > how do i loop over all the characters?
>
> "canada".split(//).each { |i| p i }

There's also String#each_byte, which will give you the numerical
character codes.


David

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