From: "Suraj N. Kurapati" <skurapat@...>
Date: 2006-08-13T10:35:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Parse/Split `cmd`

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tjones wrote:
> One very simple thing I do a lot in my TCL scripts is parse the output
> from a cmd it would read [split $x \n].

Use $x.split, which works on newlines by default.

> OK, I have a def defined to run my command line app and I want to split
> the result at the line ending, how do I do it? I have tried split(\n)
> and I get a error.

irb(main):001:0> s = "foo\nbar"
=> "foo\nbar"

irb(main):002:0> s.split
=> ["foo", "bar"]

irb(main):003:0> s.split "\n"
=> ["foo", "bar"]

irb(main):004:0> s.split '\n'
=> ["foo\nbar"]

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