* string.c (rb_str_each_char): New methods: String#chars and

#each_char.


git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/branches/ruby_1_8@16001 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Mon Apr 14 13:58:32 2008  Akinori MUSHA  <knu@iDaemons.org>
+
+	* string.c (rb_str_each_char): New methods: String#chars and
+	  #each_char.
+
 Mon Apr 14 13:42:20 2008  Akinori MUSHA  <knu@iDaemons.org>
 
 	* string.c (rb_str_each_line, rb_str_each_byte): Reflect

NEWS

@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ with all sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file.
 
   * Regexp.union accepts an array of patterns.
 
+  * String#chars
+  * String#each_char
   * String#partition
   * String#rpartition
   * String#start_with?
@@ -83,6 +85,12 @@ with all sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file.
     New methods.  These are $KCODE aware unlike #index, #rindex and
     #include?.
 
+  * String#each_byte
+  * String#each
+  * String#each_lines
+
+    Return an enumerator if no block is given.
+
   * StopIteration
 
     New exception class that causes Kernel#loop to stop iteration when

string.c

@@ -3812,6 +3812,50 @@ rb_str_each_byte(str)
 }
 
 
+/*
+ *  Document-method: chars
+ *  call-seq:
+ *     str.chars                   => anEnumerator
+ *     str.chars {|substr| block } => str
+ *  
+ *  Returns an enumerator that gives each character in the string.
+ *  If a block is given, it iterates over each character in the string.
+ *     
+ *     "foo".chars.to_a   #=> ["f","o","o"]
+ */
+
+/*
+ *  Document-method: each_char
+ *  call-seq:
+ *     str.each_char {|cstr| block }    => str
+ *  
+ *  Passes each character in <i>str</i> to the given block.
+ *     
+ *     "hello".each_char {|c| print c, ' ' }
+ *     
+ *  <em>produces:</em>
+ *     
+ *     h e l l o 
+ */
+
+static VALUE
+rb_str_each_char(VALUE str)
+{
+    int i, len, n;
+    const char *ptr;
+
+    RETURN_ENUMERATOR(str, 0, 0);
+    str = rb_str_new4(str);
+    ptr = RSTRING(str)->ptr;
+    len = RSTRING(str)->len;
+    for (i = 0; i < len; i += n) {
+        n = mbclen(ptr[i]);
+        rb_yield(rb_str_substr(str, i, n));
+    }
+    return str;
+}
+
+
 /*
  *  call-seq:
  *     str.chop!   => str or nil
@@ -4950,9 +4994,11 @@ Init_String()
     rb_define_method(rb_cString, "each_line", rb_str_each_line, -1);
     rb_define_method(rb_cString, "each",      rb_str_each_line, -1);
     rb_define_method(rb_cString, "each_byte", rb_str_each_byte, 0);
+    rb_define_method(rb_cString, "each_char", rb_str_each_char, 0);
 
     rb_define_method(rb_cString, "lines", rb_str_each_line, -1);
     rb_define_method(rb_cString, "bytes", rb_str_each_byte, 0);
+    rb_define_method(rb_cString, "chars", rb_str_each_char, 0);
 
     rb_define_method(rb_cString, "sum", rb_str_sum, -1);