From: Glenn Parker <glenn.parker@...>
Date: 2004-12-09T22:19:55+09:00
Subject: Re: [rcr] String#split behaves odd

trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 December 2004 10:00 am, Florian Frank wrote:
> |
> | "abc\n\ndef\nghi".split(/\n+/)
> 
> Sorry, what are you pointing out here?

It is impossible to have perfect forwards-backwards symmetry with split 
and join.  When the split pattern matches more than one possible string 
of characters, there is no way to join the results of the split and 
recover the original input.

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