From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2002-07-09T17:03:54+09:00
Subject: Re: is there a better string.each?

Sean Russell wrote:


> As I've said before, this is a nice solution, Hal.  However, I would expect 
> that native support for this would be faster, and when one is itterating 
> over characters, speed can quickly become an issue.  I was hoping for 
> something faster than split(''), which is also not very memory efficient, 
> creating an arbitrary Array object in the process.


... and

def each_char
    self.each_byte {|b| yield b.chr }

does not work with multibyte chars, noo?


Tobi


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