From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-10-18T17:35:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Splitting a sentence with delimiter preserved

On 17.10.2006 22:37, Gavin Kistner wrote:
> 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!!!."]

 >> string =  "This is an example string.  The purpose is to save the
delimiter during split. Does this work.  Great!!!."
 >> string = string + " It costs 0.1 dollars."
=> "This is an example string.  The purpose is to save the\ndelimiter 
during split. Does this work.  Great!!!. It costs 0.1 dollars."
 >> string.scan( /\w[^.!?]+\S+/ )
=> ["This is an example string.", "The purpose is to save the\ndelimiter 
during split.", "Does this work.", "Great!!!.", "It costs 0.1", "do
llars."]

Hm...

	robert