From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2006-08-03T08:28:22+09:00
Subject: Re: How to split(//) with respect to bigraphs?

On Aug 2, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Pavel Smerk wrote:
> But where can one find this feature of the split in the  
> documentation? http://www.rubycentral.com/ref/ 
> ref_c_string.html#split does not mention split returns not only  
> delimited substrings, but also successful groups from the match of  
> the regexp.

In Dave Thomas' Pickaxe book. Under String#split he writes:

"If pattern is a Regexp, str is divided where the pattern matches.  
Whenever the pattern
matches a zero-length string, str is split into individual  
characters. If pattern includes
groups, these groups will be included in the returned values."

Then he gives the following example:

"a@1bb@2ccc".split(/@(\d)/) => ["a", "1", "bb", "2", "ccc"]

Regards, Morton