In Ruby 1.9, bytes, lines, and chars are aliases : lines « String « Ruby

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In Ruby 1.9, bytes, lines, and chars are aliases

s = "A\nB"                       # Three ASCII characters on two lines

puts s.bytes.to_a                     # => [65,10,66]: alias for each_byte
puts s.lines.to_a                     # => ["A\n","B"]: alias for each_line
puts s.chars.to_a                     # => ["A", "\n", "B"] alias for each_char

 

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