Hey everyone I'm a 14 year-old beginner in ruby and I discovered that I
need to separate strings into arrays for a program that I am making.
For example, if I have the string 'abc', I'll want to make it into the
array ['a', 'b', 'c']. Is there any way to do this? I am using version
1.8.6, by the way. All help is welcome.
Thanks in advance!
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Hey everyone I'm a 14 year-old beginner in ruby and I discovered that I
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need to separate strings into arrays for a program that I am making.
For example, if I have the string 'abc', I'll want to make it into the
array ['a', 'b', 'c']. Is there any way to do this? I am using version
1.8.6, by the way. All help is welcome.
The method you want is String#split:
'abc'.split(//) # => ['a', 'b', 'c']
Split takes a regular expression or string as its argument, and splits
on that pattern. The empty regular expression causes it to split the
string into individual characters.
There are some more bells and whistles to it but that's the basic
idea.
David
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Ruby Mokx wrote:
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Hi,
Hey everyone I'm a 14 year-old beginner in ruby and I discovered that I
need to separate strings into arrays for a program that I am making.
For example, if I have the string 'abc', I'll want to make it into the
array ['a', 'b', 'c']. Is there any way to do this? I am using version
1.8.6, by the way. All help is welcome.
Hey Mokx, the answer has been given. Let me start to disturb you.
There's a difference between
str.scan /./ # and
str.scan /./u
Your enthusiasm ist delighting me but the real world is rough.
Cheer up.
Bertram
Am Dienstag, 27. Okt 2009, 09:38:30 +0900 schrieb Ruby Mokx:
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Here are two other techniques, just for fun:
all_characters = "abc".scan(/./)
all_characters=
"abc".each_char{ |x| all_characters.push(x) }
On Oct 26, 6:46 pm, "David A. Black" <dbl...@rubypal.com> wrote:
> need to separate strings into arrays for a program that I am making.
> For example, if I have the string 'abc', I'll want to make it into the
> array ['a', 'b', 'c']. Is there any way to do this? I am using version
> 1.8.6, by the way. All help is welcome.The method you want is String#split:
'abc'.split(//) # => ['a', 'b', 'c']
Hi --
need to separate strings into arrays for a program that I am making.
For example, if I have the string 'abc', I'll want to make it into the
array ['a', 'b', 'c']. Is there any way to do this? I am using version
1.8.6, by the way. All help is welcome.The method you want is String#split:
'abc'.split(//) # => ['a', 'b', 'c']
Here are two other techniques, just for fun:
all_characters = "abc".scan(/./)
That won't include newline characters, though, unless you use the /m
modifier.
all_characters=
"abc".each_char{ |x| all_characters.push(x) }
Actually in 1.9 you could do:
str.chars.to_a
but he's using 1.8.6.
David
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Phrogz wrote:
On Oct 26, 6:46 pm, "David A. Black" <dbl...@rubypal.com> wrote:
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