From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu.nokada@...>
Date: 2002-07-08T02:12:14+09:00
Subject: Re: is there a better string.each?

Hi,

At Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:43:57 +0900,
Dossy wrote:
> >   'foo'.split ''
> >   # ["f", "o", "o"]
> > 
> > anywas; it would probably pass the chars to the black *and* return an array.
> 
> This fails when the string is encoded in a multi-byte encoding (such
> as Japanese, Chinese, etc.) unless String#split is modified in the
> core to split on actual logical "characters" (which might be one or
> more bytes, depending on the encoding).

String#split is multi-byte aware.

  $KCODE="EUC"
  a = "\xa1\xa1\xa1\xa2".split("")
  $KCODE="NONE"
  p a	#=> ["\241\241", "\241\242"]

Or
  a = "\xa1\xa1\xa1\xa2".split(//e)
  p a	#=> ["\241\241", "\241\242"]

-- 
Nobu Nakada