From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2001-07-13T01:29:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17739] Re: Array#sort! returns nil when array empty

>>>>> "P" == Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> writes:

P> This function takes a string of the form "a b c :d e f" and converts it to
P> an array ["a", "b", "c", "d e f"].
 
pigeon% ruby -e 'p ("a b c :d e f".split(/:(\S.*)|\s+/) - [""])'
["a", "b", "c", "d e f"]
pigeon% 


 but verify it :-)


Guy Decoux