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instance method

String#chars

() -> ::Array[::String]

() { (::String char) -> void } -> self

chars → array_of_characters

static VALUE
rb_str_chars(VALUE str)
{
    VALUE ary = WANTARRAY("chars", rb_str_strlen(str));
    return rb_str_enumerate_chars(str, ary);
}

Returns an array of the characters in self:

Example

'hello'.chars     # => ["h", "e", "l", "l", "o"]
'こんにちは'.chars # => ["こ", "ん", "に", "ち", "は"]
''.chars          # => []

See also #center #chomp #casecmp? #chomp! also in 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0