From: "francisrammeloo@..." <francisrammeloo@...>
Date: 2005-07-28T21:16:01+09:00
Subject: Newbie: unexpected result with string.split( regexpr )

Hi all,

My goal is to obtain the filename out of a full pathname.

This is the code:

fullname = "./Dir/file.txt"
array = fullname.split( /.*\// )   # Searches greedyly until the last
slash


The results are:

puts array.length      ==> 2
puts array[0]          ==> (newline symbol or something??)
puts array[1]          ==> file.txt


My questions are:

Why has the array a length of 2?
What is in array[0]?


Best regards,
Francis