From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2004-02-12T11:39:32+09:00
Subject: Re: (noob) cast string to array?

Koncept [mailto:user@unknown.invalid] humbly inquired:

> 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 think you do not need "[]" replacement since you just _need_ an "array".
Remember, it just "looks like" ;-)

c:\family\ruby>ruby -w a1.rb
u is of class Array
0 'this'
1 'is a'
2 'test of wits'

c:\family\ruby>cat a1.rb
s = "{'this','is a','test of wits'}"	# just a string
t = s.gsub(/[\{}]/,'')				# no more {}
u = t.split(',').to_a				# convert to array
puts "u is of class #{u.class}"
u.each_index {|i| puts "#{i} #{u[i]}"}


I used each_index just in case you'll doubt if it's really an array. note,
no eval there :-)


> Koncept << 

kind regards -botp