Convert a string to an an array-like string to an array in Ruby [duplicate]

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How do I convert a Ruby string with brackets to an array?

In rub开发者_运维技巧y, how to transform a string to an array when this string looks-like an array declaration? Is there an equivalent of "eval" methods? I would like to avoid the split method is this case.

Eg.

myString = "[['joey','male','joey@email.com],['jenny','female','jenny@email.com']]"

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eval would do it. However I would recommend using something like JSON.parse if the data is coming from an untrusted source (i.e. the Internet).