From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2002-07-06T00:57:02+09:00
Subject: Re: is there a better string.each?

Tom Sawyer wrote:

> thought it was strange myself. personally i'd like it if String and
> Array where a little more in harmony. in c/c++ strings are arrays, arn't
> they?

This is something which bites everybody, I think, at some point.

I think things will improve when Ruby gets i17m support.  Yes, in Ruby a 
String is an array of bytes.  What about encodings that support multi-byte 
characters?  How would you itterate over them?  Support for character 
itteration /requires/ support for i17m (i18n?), and that is coming.  Until 
then, there's String::split and String::each_byte... and even String::[].
 

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