From: Ajithkumar Warrier <a.varier@...>
Date: 2006-10-18T06:29:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Splitting a sentence with delimiter preserved

On 10/17/06, Gavin Kistner <gavin.kistner@anark.com> wrote:
That was very quick.

Thank you.
> From: Ajithkumar Warrier [mailto:a.varier@gmail.com]
> > I am a newbie and the answer to this might be too simple.
> > How do I improve the example below and reduce the number of passes
> > over the string?
> >
> >  string =  "This is an example string.  The purpose is to save the
> > delimiter during split. Does this work.  Great!!!."
> >
> > re = /(\.\s+)(\D)/
> > string.gsub!(re,'\1'+'#'+'\2')
> > b = string.split('#')
> > puts b
>
> p string.scan( /\w[^.!?]+\S+/ )
>
> #=> ["This is an example string.", "The purpose is to save the delimiter
> during split.", "Does this work.", "Great!!!."]
>
>