From: CParticle <cparticle@...>
Date: 2006-11-10T23:15:05+09:00
Subject: Re: thousand ways to rome


Chris Mueller wrote:
> Hi,
> i am new to ruby and i am wondering how many more ways (and what ways)
> there are to do this:
>
> seperated_words = "hi, you, guys"
> words_array = seperated_words.split(",")
> for i in 0 ... words_array.length
>   words_array[i] = words_array[i].strip
> end
>
> i suppose there's a one-liner that you write before you can think "ruby"

Chris,
Assuming that the string convention stays a comma plus a single space
between words why not add the single space in to the split string and
write

seperated_words = "hi, you, guys"
word_array = seperated_words.split(", ")

CParticle