From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2004-12-08T14:57:25+09:00
Subject: Re: [rcr] String#split behaves odd

Hi,

In message "Re: [rcr] String#split behaves odd"
    on Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:52:24 +0900, "Pe�a, Botp" <botp@delmonte-phil.com> writes:

|I thought we can cater that w a limit parameter,
|
|irb(main):040:0>  "\nabc\ndef\n".split("\n",-1).join("\n")
|=> "\nabc\ndef\n"
|
|and that split by itself (w/o limit param) simplifies by trimming trailing
|edges -which is good in some cases, imho.

Blame Larry Wall for the weird default behavior. ;-)
I owe him too much to do it by myself.
							matz.