From: Dossy <dossy@...>
Date: 2002-07-08T06:46:41+09:00
Subject: Re: is there a better string.each?

On 2002.07.08, Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu.nokada@softhome.net> wrote:
> 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"]

Oh, hey, wow!  Who snuck this in and where was it documented?  :-)

It works on 1.6.7 (2002-03-19), cool!

-- Dossy

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