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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