From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2004-12-07T16:32:36+09:00
Subject: Re: [rcr] String#split behaves odd

Yukihiro Matsumoto [mailto:matz@ruby-lang.org] wrote:
//|[] != [""]
//|
//|I myself thought that string#split would return an array of 
//strings w a 
//|minimum element of [""]
//
//I don't get it.  [] is an array of strings with zero elements. ;-)
//

I'm sorry, but the ff disturbs me (only):

irb(main):014:0> "testing".split("test")
=> ["", "ing"]
irb(main):015:0> " ".split("test")
=> [" "]
irb(main):016:0> "".split("test")
=> []

Also, I cannot seem to get just an array of empty string [""] using split.
I'm ashame to ask sir Matz, so can anyone kindly give me an example?

//							matz.
//

kind regards -botp