Ruby String Walking · In preparation for my presentation next weekend at RubyConf, I’ve been poking around at Ruby’s string-handling. One thing that text-wranglers such as me like to do is walk through a string a character at a time, and Ruby doesn’t make this particularly easy. I ended up implementing String#each_char_utf8 three times along the way. [Update: Lots of interesting feedback, and a worth-reading ruby-talk thread.] ... [8 comments]
