Assign the array returned by String.split to a variable

Hi

i have the following method

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def create
     length = @txt.length
     i = 0
     while i < (length + 1)
       line = @txt[i]
       line.split(',')
       #@arr.push(a)
       i += 1
     end
   end
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this works but as soon as i take out the comment.
i get an error something about private method split beeing called on a nil object.
I found out that this has to do with split that has to be called by self or something.

what i like to do is have an array of the split arrays.
any ideas?

greet Eelco

Catsquotl wrote:

this works

Prove it.

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You would want something like this

def create
  ary = @txt.collect{ |t| t.split(',') }
end

Basically collect takes your initial array and runs through each element and
creates a new array based on the results of the block.

John

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On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Catsquotl <nope@nothere.nl> wrote:

Hi

what i like to do is have an array of the split arrays.
any ideas?

Catsquotl wrote:

Hi

i have the following method
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def create
     length = @txt.length
     i = 0
     while i < (length + 1)
       line = @txt[i]
       line.split(',')
       #@arr.push(a)
       i += 1
     end
   end
-------
this works but as soon as i take out the comment.
i get an error something about private method split beeing called on a
nil object.

This means that @arr is nil, that is, you are doing

    nil.push(a)

So you need to initialize it first:

    @arr =

There are a few other errors in your code, for example you didn't assign
to a:

    a = line.split(',')
    @arr.push(a)

and your loop should be while i < length, not while i < length+1. As has
been pointed out, there are more ruby-like ways to do this loop.

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assign the array returned by String.split to a variable

str = "hello,world"
arr = str.split(",")
p arr

--output:--
["hello", "world"]

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