At Wed, 16 Jun 2004 23:13:26 +0900,
Ralf Mler wrote:
> 
> ram@lilith:~/src/ruby$time ruby -e 'num=STDIN.gets; a=Array.new; (0..9).each 
> {|i| a[i] = 0}; (0..num.length).each {|i| a[num[i..i].to_i] += 1 }; 
> a.each_index {|i| print "#{i} #{a[i]}\n"} ' < pi.out

# get the input
num = STDIN.gets;
# initialize array entries with 0
a = Array.new(255,0);
# count the occurence of each byte in the input
num.each_byte {|i| a[i] += 1};
# only interested in the byte/characters for 0-9
(?0..?9).each {|i| print "#{[i].pack("c")} #{a[i]}\n"};

I suspect the num[i..i].to_i is pretty expensive... and it's not
really needed in this case.

Cheers,
Ruben