From: Harpo <harpo@...>
Date: 2004-02-12T17:29:59+09:00
Subject: Re: (noob) cast string to array?

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:03:31 +0900, Martin Hart wrote:

> irb(main):003:0> array = eval s

As the string s comes from the world outside the ruby script, here it is
*supposed* coming from a shell script, it may be dangerous to use eval.
Suppose s is or contains something like : 
exec("rm -rf *")
you might run into some problems.