From: Yui NARUSE Date: 2011-02-21T15:09:04+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:35323] [Ruby 1.9-Feature#4414] Addition to String.split Issue #4414 has been updated by Yui NARUSE. Your proposal seems valid, because current String#split only accept arguments whose first argument has to_str method. The problem is the use case can be solbed by String#unpack (or lib/scanf.rb) like following. version, language, revision = str.unpack('a3a4a*') ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/4414 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org