From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2004-06-01T22:28:38+09:00
Subject: Re: [bug] String#split returns extra empty string

David Alan Black wrote:
> Hi --

Moin!

>>FYI:  I have no idea when this wiping empty tail elements are useful.
>>Any ideas ?
> 
> Maybe a case like:
> 
>   irb(main):006:0> "one two three ".split(" ")
>   => ["one", "two", "three"]
> 
> (though there you don't need an argument to split at all I guess) or
> something like:
> 
>   irb(main):016:0> "one!two!three!".split("!")
>   => ["one", "two", "three"]

Hm, I think that it causes more trouble than it's worth. It's very easy 
to remove empty elements anyway:

	"one!two!three!".split("!").reject { |item| item.empty? }

Maybe it would be better to create a reject_at_end/at_start or something 
similar?

Regards,
Florian Gross