From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2005-11-30T00:21:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Record-separator is a regular expression

On Nov 29, 2005, at 7:08 AM, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Nov 29, 2005, at 7:51 AM, Gavin Kistner wrote:
>> 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.
>> p data.split( /-+| +|\n/ )
>> #=> ["name", "age", "size", "Gavin", "32", "33"]
>
> William is talking about the separator used by IO objects, $/.

Ah...thanks :)