From: Martin Hart <martin@...>
Date: 2004-02-12T10:03:31+09:00
Subject: Re: (noob) cast string to array?

On Thursday 12 February 2004 00:35, Koncept wrote:
> Hi. What a fantastic language. This is my first day learning using it
> and I *love* it so far.
>
> Now I have a string that *LOOKS* like and Array but isn't....
>
> Any suggestions are more than welcome.

irb(main):002:0> s = '["a string", "another string"]'
=> "[\"a string\", \"another string\"]"
irb(main):003:0> array = eval s
=> ["a string", "another string"]
irb(main):004:0> array.class
=> Array


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