From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2005-11-29T22:51:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Record-separator is a regular expression

On Nov 29, 2005, at 6:22 AM, William James wrote:
> Unlike Gawk and Mawk, Ruby won't accept a regular expression as a
> record-separator.

Er, huh?

data = <<ENDDATA
name-----age-----size
Gavin    32      33
ENDDATA

p data.split( /-+| +|\n/ )
#=> ["name", "age", "size", "Gavin", "32", "33"]