Convert integer to array?

Ruby
21

you convert x to a string and using split to cut it to array.
example:
x = 1234
=> x.to_s.split("")
result to run it: [“1”, “2”, “3”, “4”]

22

ruby -e “a=123405; r=; (r.unshift(a%10) ; a/=10 ) while a>0; p r”

23 
require 'benchmark'

def dec1(a)
  r=[]
  (r.unshift(a%10) ; a/=10 ) while a>0
  r
end
def dec2(a)
 a.to_s.split(//).map(&:to_i)
end
X=10000

Benchmark.bm do |x|
  x.report("arithmetics") { X.times {|i| dec1(11223344556677889900+i)} }
  x.report("string size") { X.times {|i| dec2(11223344556677889900+i)} }
end

>ruby a.rb
       user     system      total        real
arithmetics  0.062000   0.000000   0.062000 (  0.067551)
string size  0.156000   0.000000   0.156000 (  0.170436)
24 
2.3.3 :003 > x = 1234
 => 1234 
2.3.3 :004 > x.to_s.split('').map(&:to_i)
 => [1, 2, 3, 4]
25

number.to_s.chars.map(&:to_i) # before ruby 2.4
number.digits # after ruby 2.4
:sunglasses:

27

you can do like:

1234.to_s.chars.map(&:to_i)
=> [1, 2, 3, 4]