Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] Ruby String Split Method

[Craig W. <cwi...@ma...>]

> On Jan 18, 2009, at 3:22 PM, Harry Maclean wrote:
> Sorry if this is an obvious or stupid question, but I have been  
> trying for some time to find a way of splitting a string into an  
> array so that each character is a member of the array.
>
> I initially tried using ruby's somearray = somestring.split(//), but  
> I got an error saying:
>
> NoMethodError: undefined method `empty?' for //:Regexp
>     /Library/Frameworks/RubyCocoa.framework/Resources/ruby/osx/objc/ 
> oc_attachments.rb:839:in `split'
>
> I then tried a Cocoa approach with the  
> componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet but it gave me an error also.
>
> Am I missing an obvious method of splitting a string into an array?



Are you sure that somestring is actually a string?

Your code works fine OMM.

You can also use this.

 >> 'this is a string'.scan(/./)
=> ["t", "h", "i", "s", " ", "i", "s", " ", "a", " ", "s", "t", "r",  
"i", "n", "g"]