From: Mike Stok <mike@...>
Date: 2001-08-17T08:30:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19925] Re: efficent way to split up arguments of a string

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Jonathan Brannan wrote:

> Ive been reading in a file and need to split the first word and the rest of
> the arguments.
> Right now im using line.split[1..-1].join(" ") to get the args back as a
> string, was just wondering if there was a better way.

You can ask split to just split it into 2 pieces e.g.

irb(main):001:0> s = 'command and some args'
"command and some args"
irb(main):002:0> c, a = s.split(' ', 2)
["command", "and some args"]

Hope this helps,

Mike

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