From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-07-10T01:30:23+09:00
Subject: Re: String#each

Hi,

In message "Re: String#each"
    on 02/07/09, Sean Russell <ser@germane-software.com> writes:

|If you, Matz, know that there's a more efficient way of creating an Array of 
|Characters (which, I assume, will be Strings) from a String, then yes.  I 
|would like to have a chars() method.  However, if everything is basically 
|going to boil down to an internal split(), can we just use split()?

If you want to split a string into per character strings, you should
(and you will) use String#split.  chars (and each_char) work on
"characters", which are integers in my current M17N implementation.

							matz.