From: Koncept <user@...>
Date: 2004-02-12T09:35:02+09:00
Subject: (noob) cast string to array?


Hi. What a fantastic language. This is my first day learning using it
and I *love* it so far.

I am not very comfortable with Ruby speak yet, so I hope the
explaination of my problem makes some kind of sense.

I have a program that fetches some results from a shell script. The
result is a string, not a block as it may look like below.

result = { "foobar", "foobar", "foobar" }

I want to basically remove the {}'s and replace them with [] and cast
result as an array so that I can have some fun within Ruby.

I figured something like this:

result = result.sub(/\{/,'[')
result = result.sub(/\}/,']')

Now I have a string that *LOOKS* like and Array but isn't....

Any suggestions are more than welcome.

-- 
Koncept << 
"Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or 
tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding 
on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see." - Jack Handey