From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2001-07-13T17:44:42+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17778] Re: Regex Groups in String#split (Re: Array#sort! returns nil when array empty)

>>>>> "p" == pit  <pit@capitain.de> writes:

p> You can even get rid of the dubious ' - [""]' by changing the code to
p> "a b c :d e f".split(/\s+:(\S.*)|\s+/)

 One use of '- [""]' is for

pigeon% ruby -e 'p " a b c :d e f".split(/\s+:(\S.*)|\s+/)'
["", "a", "b", "c", "d e f"]
pigeon% 


Guy Decoux