From: David Naseby <david.naseby@...>
Date: 2004-02-12T11:55:26+09:00
Subject: Re: (noob) cast string to array?

>-----Original Message-----
>From: "Pe�a, Botp" [mailto:botp@delmonte-phil.com]
>> 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 :-)
>

Or easier, avoiding eval again:

 u = s.scan( /[\w\s]+/ )

David