From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2004-12-07T14:16:06+09:00
Subject: Re: [rcr] String#split behaves odd

Yukihiro Matsumoto [mailto:matz@ruby-lang.org] wrote:
//    on Tue, 7 Dec 2004 04:20:37 +0900, Simon Strandgaard 
//|Maybe the return value of String#split is wrong.
//|If I invoke split on an empty string, then it
//|results in an empty Array (which I think is odd).
//
//Feeling odd is subjective.  Could you tell me why you felt 
//String#split is "wrong"?

imho, I think he meant

[] != [""]

I myself thought that string#split would return an array of strings w a
minimum element of [""]

//
//							matz.

kind regards -botp