On 10/18/06, John Pywtorak <jpywtora / calpoly.edu> wrote:
> 9 digits in a string "123456789", convert to individual Fixnums
> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9], or as below
>
> a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i = id.scan(/\d/).map(&:to_i)
>
> Simpler yet how about ["1", "2", ...]. Is scan the only direct way?
>

"123456789".split( '' ) #thats two single quotes. (:

hth,
-Harold