From: Koncept <user@...>
Date: 2004-02-12T10:30:00+09:00
Subject: Re: (noob) cast string to array?

In article <200402120054.23296.martin@zsdfherg.com>, Martin Hart
<martin@zsdfherg.com> wrote:

> 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

This is great! Thanks Martin. Thanks for all the fast responses as well
everybody.

I just wanted to follow up on some of the responses here:

1) Suggestion to use gsub over sub. I assume that gsub is global? 
2) what is the "!" responsible for doing? (Remember me = n00b ) 

> Simon wrote:
> result.sub!(/\{/,'[').sub!(/\}/,']')

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